[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 55 (Tuesday, April 17, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H1859]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    THE REPUBLICAN BUDGET IS UNFAIR

  (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, the House 
will consider legislation to make it easier to pass the Republican 
budget and to make it easier to pass a budget that is very unfair in 
its makeup. It's unfair because it continues to lavish tax breaks on 
the wealthiest people in this country while asking that the elderly in 
the Medicare program and that our poorest children in our elementary 
schools and young people struggling to pay for their college education 
all pay more to make room for a tax cut for millionaires that averages 
$187,000 a year in a tax cut to the wealthiest people in this country.
  It's not about wanting to tax more; it's about wanting tax fairness. 
It's about recognizing the economic disparity that exists in this 
country and how the Tax Code continues to lavish the benefits of the 
taxes that people do pay back to the richest people in this country. 
And yet later this week, the Republicans are bringing yet another tax 
bill that will benefit the top 3 percent of the taxpayers in this 
country and add $48 billion to the deficit this year and a half a 
trillion dollars to the deficit over 10 years.
  That's not fair, it's not right, it's not equitable, and it needs to 
be rejected.

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