[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14258]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            CHILD TAX CREDIT

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, House Majority Whip Blunt said GOP Members 
find no urgency to act for a child tax credit, but there was an 
incredible urgency in this House a couple of weeks ago when we acted in 
the dark of the night to extend an average $93,500 tax break to every 
millionaire in America.
  Then the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Mrs. Myrick) said, if we 
give people a tax break that do not pay taxes, it is welfare. Excuse 
me, someone who earns $27,000 a year pays $1,890 in FICA taxes. They 
pay taxes, regressive taxes; and guess what, every penny of those FICA 
taxes that is supposed to go into the Social Security surplus, the 
lockbox, that that side of the aisle used to support, that the 
President used to support, is being borrowed and being mailed in big 
checks to the wealthy. She may call that welfare; I call it Reverse 
Robin Hood.

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