[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23347]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  AT LEAST ONE ABUSIVE TAX SHELTER COULD HAVE BEEN CUT INSTEAD OF THE 
                        EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)

  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, of course the raid on Social Security is 
the one our Republican friends have already incurred through this year, 
but what I would like to focus on are the millions of Americans that 
are out there right now preparing our lunch at a fast food restaurant, 
caring for seniors at a nursing home or for our children at a child 
care center, a young police officer who is putting his or her life on 
the line, a young teacher trying to assure educational opportunity; all 
of these folks working at low-paid jobs, as they work, receive an 
earned income tax credit as an incentive to work, to contribute, to pay 
their taxes.

  It is to this group of working American families that this Republican 
majority has turned at this very hour to finance their fiscal 
irresponsibility. They could have closed at least one abusive corporate 
tax shelter. They could have ended a tax loophole, but instead they 
turned to working Americans in what one executive at H&R Block says 
would ``cause confusion and disrupt the personal lives of hard-working 
American families'' by delaying their tax refund. This is wrong. This 
tactic must be rejected.

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