[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 119 (Thursday, September 10, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7499]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              CALLING FOR FURTHER TAX RELIEF FOR AMERICANS

  (Mr. SHIMKUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHIMKUS. Madam Speaker, we recently marked the first year 
anniversary of the Taxpayer Relief Act, the first major tax reduction 
since the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s. Let us face it, there would 
have been no tax cut at all were it not for a Republican Congress.
  In fact, the last time the Democrats controlled Congress they did 
what Democrats can be expected to do, raise taxes. The Republican Party 
is the party of tax cuts, the Democrat party is the party of bigger 
government and higher taxes; two different directions, two different 
visions of what the people's representatives in Washington should do 
with other people's money.
  Last year tax cuts were only a first step. The Taxpayer Relief Act 
reduced the tax on capital gains, cut the estate tax, expanded IRAs for 
middle class savers, provided a $500 per child tax cut, and passed into 
law a host of other tax reductions. But this Congress would like to go 
further. We should eliminate the marriage tax penalty and pass more tax 
relief for middle class taxpayers.

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