[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 24, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H7221]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE OUGHT TO BE REJECTED

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, later today we will be 
called upon to vote on the economic stimulus package presented from the 
other side of the aisle. Should that package pass, we will create the 
greatest inequality in the treatment of American taxpayers in decades 
in this country. We will return to the days of yesteryear where in 
1986, 1987, and 1988 corporations were making millions of dollars and 
paid no taxes. They paid nothing for the privilege of the defense 
system of this country. They paid nothing for the research capabilities 
of this country. They paid nothing for the privileges of being an 
American corporation.
  Today, we are going to go back and we are going to repeal the 
alternative minimum tax so those corporations will be back in the 
position of paying no taxes and at the same time, at a time when this 
country is at war, when we are asking for shared contribution, shared 
sacrifice, we are going to dump the burden of this war, the cost of 
this war, the cost of this deficit, the cost of bailing out Social 
Security on the backs of working people and the payroll tax. That is 
what the Republican Party believes is fair, is equitable. It is wrong, 
it drips with greed, it drips with special interests and it ought to be 
rejected.

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