[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 55 (Tuesday, April 17, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E558]
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  INTRODUCTION OF THE ENDING TAX BREAKS FOR DISCRIMINATION ACT OF 2012

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 17, 2012

  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, while the Augusta National Golf Course is 
known as a premier golf course and for hosting the Master's tournament, 
the club is also known for its discriminatory policy of denying women 
membership. Yet Augusta is not the only `boys club'--over 20 other 
clubs throughout the country prohibit women from joining.
  In addition to these unfair and unjust policies, Augusta and other 
clubs around the country are benefitting from federal tax breaks that 
allow deductions of business-related entertainment, business meals, and 
business expenses associated with travel and meetings. The government 
currently indirectly subsidizes discrimination by allowing tax 
deductions when individuals and corporations do business at private 
clubs that discriminate. It is simply outrageous that taxpayers barred 
from joining these clubs are forced to pay for business expenses 
associated with them. This is why I am reintroducing the Ending Tax 
Breaks for Discrimination Act of 2012 so that clubs that discriminate 
will not be subsidized by the government. This legislation would deny 
all deductions for business expenses associated with the use of a club 
that discriminates on the basis of sex, race, or color. Discriminatory 
clubs will have to state on their receipts that their expenditures are 
nondeductible.
  It's time to end tax breaks for discrimination--plain and simple.

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