[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20725]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 WE NEED TO ROLL BACK THE TAX CUTS AND DEVELOP AN EXIT STRATEGY TO GET 
                              OUT OF IRAQ

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, I want to agree with my good friend from 
Texas (Mr. DeLay) that we need to do everything we can to avoid any 
kind of tax hikes.
  However, I think all Americans would expect that the top 1 percent of 
the income earners in this country, who receive most of the benefit 
from the administration's tax cuts, should have to give up some of 
their tax cuts in order to relieve the burden on the people in the gulf 
coast. It is only fair.
  America can meet its responsibilities, but we are going to have to 
roll back those tax breaks that were given to the wealthiest Americans 
in order to help the least of our brethren.
  We can also save money by planning an exit strategy out of Iraq. 
Wherever I go in my district, people say, get us out of Iraq. Well, it 
is time for us to have an exit strategy. That is what House Joint 
Resolution 55 is about, a bipartisan exit strategy.
  We can do things to have the resources to take care of people in the 
gulf. But we first have to get out of the Persian Gulf. And we also 
have to get out of this thinking that says that tax cuts are somehow 
the way to economic recovery.

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