[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 98 (Friday, July 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5135]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 TAX RELIEF FOR HARD-WORKING AMERICANS

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I have been listening to this and did not 
intend to speak on this particular subject.
  Talk about class warfare, 50 percent of American workers pay more 
FICA than they do income tax, that big goose egg on the 1040 of which 
the gentleman speaks, 50 percent. But they are not Republican types 
because they are not making over $50,000 or $60,000 or $75,000 like all 
of us are. Everybody in this Chamber, are we not big deals?
  But let me tell my colleagues about my three kids working and paying 
more FICA, and let me tell them something if they do not think these 
people need relief, trying to get a house and buy a car and do what we 
want them to do. Hard-working Americans, not our crowd, not the big 
bucks guys that my Republican colleagues want to give the big tax cuts 
to that bust the budget in the second 10 years and do exactly what they 
did in 1981, create $4.5 trillion dollars of new debt for working 
Americans to pay.
  Yes, we want to give relief to hard-working Americans who pay taxes.

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