[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13980]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           TIME FOR A TAX CUT

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, time and time again my liberal friends 
march down to the well of the House to rail against tax cuts for the 
rich. Ironically, their misleading rhetoric never includes a definition 
of what constitutes being rich. This is because many of the people they 
are talking about would be shocked to learn that big-spending 
politicians consider them rich.
  Take, for example, a young married couple earning $72,000 a year. 
This couple falls into the top 10 percent of taxpaying households and 
would surely be branded as greedy and undeserving of any tax relief by 
the rhetorical rants coming from the left side of the aisle.
  Mr. Speaker, this is demagoguery, it is disingenuous, and it is not 
true. I would hope it would come to an end. I implore my Democratic 
colleagues to stop their misleading tactics and join the Republican 
Party's majority effort to provide an across-the-board tax cut to every 
American who pays Federal income taxes.

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