[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H654]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            NEW HEALTH CARE BILL IS A MIDDLE CLASS TAX HIKE

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, the White House has a new health care bill, 
but this new bill is essentially the same as the old one. It is still a 
hugely expensive package full of harmful tax increases for working 
Americans that will destroy even more jobs than Democratic policies 
have already destroyed.
  During his campaign, the President said, ``Under my plan, no family 
making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase; not 
your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax, not 
any of your taxes.''
  That's interesting because this new health care bill includes about 
$136 billion in new taxes on the very group that wasn't supposed to see 
``any form of tax increase.''
  Mr. Speaker, the American people don't want a government takeover of 
health care with billions of new taxes on hardworking Americans who are 
struggling to make ends meet.

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