[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18483]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                A TAX ON HEALTH CARE IS A TAX ON PAYROLL

  (Mr. BUCHANAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Speaker, at the start of this year, the focus has 
been on economy and jobs, number one.
  I was chairman of the Florida Chamber 4 years ago. We represented 
137,000 businesses, and 99 percent of those businesses were small 
business. They create 75 percent of the jobs. Yet, today, we are going 
to tax health care. It's not a tax on profit. It's a tax on payroll. If 
you've got a $1 million payroll making no money, and if you're paying 
another $80,000 a year you don't have, you're going to put people out 
of business.
  The other thing they want to put together is a surtax of 5.4 percent 
on businesses. They want to get to the millionaires. Do you know who 
those folks are? They're small business people. You wouldn't know that 
if you've never been in business. That's the majority of them. So 
you're going to tax the 8 percent. You're going to add another 5.4 
percent. You're going to kill millions of businesses, and you're going 
to kill millions and millions of more jobs. We need to get focused back 
on the economy and on jobs in America today, right now.

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