[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14582]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               CLINTON DEMOCRATS ARE WRONG ON TAX RELIEF

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, at a recent fundraiser, a group of well 
heeled Democratic contributors were told: ``Many of you are well enough 
off that . . . the tax cuts may have helped you. We are saying that for 
America to get back on track, we are probably going to cut that short 
and not give it to you. We are going to take things away from you on 
behalf of the common good.''
  If these campaign contributors believe the tax relief affected only a 
few rich people, they are wrong. If none of this tax relief had become 
law in 2004, 111 million Americans would pay on an average of over 
$1,500 more in taxes, 49 million married couples would pay over $2,600 
more in taxes, 11 million single women with children would pay over 
$900 more in taxes, 14 million elderly individuals would pay over 
$1,800 more in taxes, nearly 5 million individuals and families who 
currently have no income tax liability would have to pay the income 
tax.
  The fact is middle-class families, small business owners, who have 
created most of our 1\1/2\ million new jobs this year, are not rich as 
some of our friends would have us believe.

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