[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 189 (Friday, November 30, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H9745-H9746]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 FAILED TAX POLICY IS COMING TO AN END

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, no wonder Republicans are afraid to even 
debate their latest tax bill. As their 8-year grip on tax policy comes 
to an end, it is a story of failure, missed opportunities, and making a 
broken tax system worse.

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  The Tax Code under the Republicans was made more complex and more 
unfair every year they were in charge. They showered more tax breaks on 
the wealthy and corporations, and enhanced income inequality.
  They had an iron grip on the average taxpayer, denying even basic 
customer service through the IRS. They exploded the deficits--a 
trillion dollars a year for as far as the eye can see--and refused to 
enforce the Tax Code on people who cheat, leaving hundreds of billions 
of uncollected tax dollars unavailable to reduce the deficit or fund 
government service.
  For 8 years, they even refused to listen to the vast array of 
infrastructure stakeholders on how to rebuild and renew America, a 
sorry legacy I am confident we will improve upon as Democrats. We 
couldn't do any worse.

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