[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19549]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             HEALTH CARE BILL AN IMPEDIMENT TO JOB CREATION

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, many of my Republican 
colleagues and I have been coming down to this floor and asking the 
question, where are the jobs? Because the stimulus package has failed 
to deliver on the promise of 3 million jobs that it said it would, and 
instead our economy has actually lost over 3 million jobs.
  And now we will soon be asked to vote on a health care reform package 
that places even more hurdles to jobs and growth of job creation. The 
health care plan being debated puts an onerous new tax on individuals 
and small business job creators through a surtax on income. It adds a 
new 8 percent tax on payrolls for companies that don't provide health 
care, Mr. Speaker.
  Does anyone actually believe that the addition of this new tax will 
encourage job providers to either raise their workers' pay or to create 
new jobs when both of these actions actually lead to higher taxes?
  In the rush to pass the stimulus, the Democrats put $1 trillion of 
new debt on our children and on our grandchildren and did not create 
the jobs that we need. In our rush to pass a new health care bill, we 
will now put new hurdles to job creation and economic growth.
  Where are the jobs? Clearly not in this new health care package.

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