[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H6300-H6301]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE COLLINS FAMILY

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, back in the First District of Georgia what 
will the tax cut mean to the Collins family? Mr. and Mrs. Collins, who 
have a combined income of $61,000 and three kids, Dennis, Tom, and Sue 
Ellen, the $500 per child tax credit means the Collins' will pay $1,500 
less in taxes next year.
  Mr. Collins is a farmer. Mrs. Collins is a school teacher. Because he 
is self-employed, he can start deducting 100 percent of his health care 
costs. That makes health care for the Collins family more affordable 
and more accessible. And when it comes time to estate planning, to pass 
that family farm, that American dream back down the line to Tom, 
Dennis, and Sue Ellen, Mr. and Mrs. Collins will now have a $2.6 
million unified tax credit on their death taxes that will be exempt 
from the taxes so that they can pass the farm on to the next 
generation.

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  Mr. Speaker, this is the American dream as the Republican Party has 
worked for it. We have worked in a bipartisan fashion. We believe that 
families like the Collins' are all over America.

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