[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 96 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4922]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  REPUBLICAN PLAN BENEFITS THE WEALTHY

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, according to all of the news 
services, the public understands very well what is going on. Sixty-one 
percent of the American people now understand that the Republican tax 
bill gives most of the benefits to wealthy corporations and to wealthy 
individuals.
  What is the Republicans' response to this fact? The response is to go 
out and hire a new public relations firm to try to tell a new story 
about their tax bill. It is not to change their tax bill, to take care 
of working families, it is not to change their tax bill to take care of 
the children of working families, but it is to change the public 
relations firm.
  What the Republicans ought to do is start sharing some of the 
benefits of that tax bill with people who wake up every morning and go 
to work and work hard but do not make a lot of money. They, too, would 
like to take care of their children. They, too, would like to be able 
to educate their children. But the Republicans do not do that. They 
decide in fact that corporations should no longer have to pay the 
alternative minimum tax. They decide in fact that people who clip 
coupons should pay 15 percent of taxes while people who go to work 
should pay 28 percent on their taxes.

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