[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 125 (Thursday, September 23, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H8562]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 THE MARRIAGE TAX PENALTY WILL CONTINUE

  (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, today's theme team is proud to present to 
the President of the United States the smoke and mirror award for 
vetoing the middle-class tax cut. The middle class in America, the 
President says, deserves a break. Of course, a couple of years ago, 
remember, he was asking these same middle class people to invest in 
government and yet today he refused to invest in them by letting us 
keep our own money.
  Therefore, in Savannah, Georgia, Marilyn and Robert Johnson will 
continue to pay the marriage tax penalty that they are having to pay 
ever since they were married, because this President does not want to 
give them relief.

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  Ms. C.C. Jones in Brunswick, Georgia who works out of her house will 
continue to not have the 100 percent deduction for buying her health 
care, because the President will not give it to her. And then, a good 
friend of mine named Jimmy, I am not going to say his last name, 
because he is in an income bracket that is not necessarily something 
the President cares about, he would have gotten a 7 percent tax 
reduction today, but the President says, no, Jimmy, you keep on working 
those 50 to 60 hours a week, because Washington is going to grow, not 
the American taxpayers. They are not going to keep their money.
  To you, Mr. President, I proudly present the Smoke and Mirror Award. 
Job well done for government bureaucrats. One more victory for 
Washington, one less for middle-class taxpayers.

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