[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 101 (Wednesday, July 16, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H5308-H5309]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             REPUBLICAN TAX RELIEF--TAKE A TURN ON THE WEB

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Speaker Gingrich stood in the 
well of this House and he invited the American people to visit the 
House Republican web site, calculate their estimated tax savings under 
the Republican plan.
  So I thought, let us see how an average working tax-paying mom with 
two kids would fare under the Republican plan. Let me just say I 
received an error message saying they could not calculate her savings. 
Perhaps that is because this family would get a big fat zero. No tax 
break at all under the Republican plan.
  Then I entered in the data for someone making $1 million a year, half 
of that in capital gains. The Republican calculator had no problem 
figuring out their tax break: $40,000.
  That is true. A millionaire gets $40,000 back and a working taxpaying 
mother in this country gets zero.
  The Washington Post editorial this morning hit it right on the nose. 
``The Republicans have written a tax bill

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tilted heavily toward the better off.'' They target this as ``tax 
trash''. If anything, this was an understatement. Everyone should take 
a turn on the web and see for themselves.

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