[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12260]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS CONGRESS

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, the last 24 hours will tell you everything 
you need to know about what is wrong with this Congress: hold up voting 
rights, knock down the minimum wage increase, relieve the superrich of 
responsibility for paying estate taxes, keep sending our children to 
fight and die in a war based on lies. That, by the way, is the real 
death tax, and it is paid by the poor and the middle class. Our new 
motto should be: United We Stand, Sure, But Divided We Profit.
  H.R. 5638, the estate tax legislation, should be more accurately 
described as the American Idle Act, I-D-L-E, because it relieves the 
children of billionaires and multi-multi-millionaires of over one-
quarter of a trillion dollars in estate taxes in just 5 years starting 
in 2013. The $2,600 per taxpayer loss of revenue will take money from 
our schools and from our health care and from senior citizens programs.
  The Bible says it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a 
needle than for a rich man to get to heaven. Here in Washington, the 
superrich ride elephants, and some donkeys, to get to their alabaster 
heaven where they pay no taxes.

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