[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 97 (Thursday, July 10, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5026]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            NO RELIEF SEEN FROM REPUBLICAN TAX CUT PROPOSAL

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, thousands of young Americans across this 
country will get absolutely no relief from this Republican tax bill. 
No, all they will get is a tax increase. That is right. This bill 
imposes a new tax on educational opportunity, and it is wrong.
  Universities across our country often provide incentives to talented 
graduate students as teaching or research assistants by reducing their 
tuition at the same time they offer services as teachers and 
researchers for the future of our higher education system. Currently 
this assistance is not taxed. But the Republicans propose to tax it, to 
tax educational opportunity, at the same time they provide one tax 
break after another for the rich and the famous.
  Taxing educational opportunities penalizes the very people that we 
need to be helping. These are young people who are struggling to get by 
on $12,000 or $15,000, and suddenly they will face a very substantial 
tax increase. Let us reject the Republican tax hike on educational 
opportunity.

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