[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 77 (Wednesday, June 12, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3458]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  ELIMINATION OF MARRIAGE PENALTY TAX

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, this week we are going to bring up the 
elimination of the sunset clause for the marriage penalty tax.
  Mr. Speaker, 120,000 individuals in my State, 60,000 married couples, 
are affected by this tax. If we allow this tax to come back, to rise 
from the dead one more time in the year 2010, we are going to do severe 
injustice to those 60,000 couples. Couples are going to end up paying 
$1,300, $1,400 more in tax simply because they are married. This is an 
unjust and unfair clause, and we must eliminate the sunset clause so 
that this tax remains buried once and for all. We cannot afford to have 
our married couples deciding whether or not they should remain married 
over paying a tax.

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