[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 119 (Thursday, September 10, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7498]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   ELIMINATE THE MARRIAGE TAX PENALTY

  (Mr. WELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELLER. Madam Speaker, let me ask a basic question of fairness: 
Is it right, is it fair, that the average married working couple with 
two incomes pays higher taxes, just because they are married, than an 
identical couple living together outside of marriage? Is it right that 
21 million married working couples pay on the average $1,400 more in 
taxes just because they are married? $1,400 in the south suburbs in 
Chicago, that is one year's tuition at Joliet Junior College, three 
months' worth of day care at a local day care center in Joliet.
  In the remaining weeks of this session let us go about doing the 
people's business. Let us ask the President to work with us. Let us 
help the middle class with the Marriage Tax Penalty Elimination Act. 
Let us eliminate the marriage tax penalty. Let us do it now, and make 
it our top priority in the next few weeks.

                          ____________________