[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 4, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H4882]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    MIDDLE-INCOME TAXPAYERS WILL PAY GREATER SHARE OF FEDERAL TAXES

  (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, two stories today in the papers tell it all. 
One, ``Delay Rebuffs Move to Restore Lost Tax Credit,'' a credit for 
6.5 million low-income families. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) 
says, ``There are a lot of other things that are more important than 
that.''
  The second story, the headline is, ``Middle Class Tax Share Set to 
Rise,'' and it says that as a result of three successive tax cuts of 
the Bush administration, middle-income taxpayers will be paying a 
greater share of all Federal taxes by the end of the decade.
  When we raise these issues, the majority here likes to say it is 
class warfare. There is class warfare against middle- and low-income 
families under the Republican majority rule. We ask this question to 
taxpayers of America, Whose side are you on? It is clear the 
Republicans are on the side, as said in the paper, of Americans who 
earn $337,000 or more per year.

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