[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25595]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               SOUNDS LIKE SOMEBODY'S GETTING A TAX HIKE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the new reformed, revised, special 
edition version of the Senate health care bill written in the dark, 
secret caverns of the Capitol is a whopping 1,500 pages long. Americans 
for Tax Reform did a word search on the bill and they found some 
interesting words.
  Right here on this chart, the word ``tax'' is used 124 times. You 
know, that is the government's favorite word. ``Taxes,'' 16 times; 
``excise tax,'' 12 times; ``taxpayers,'' 79 times. Here is a bad one, 
``taxable,'' 158 times. That is a whole lot of taxes in this bill.
  Of course, the words ``tax exempt'' are found only 15 times in the 
bill. There are some more bad words like ``penalty'' and ``require'' 
and ``must.'' And here is a bad one, ``shall,'' 2,585 times in this tax 
bill--I mean health care bill.
  Mr. Speaker, these are some bad words, totaling 3,196 words about 
taking money from the American taxpayer.
  Sounds like somebody is getting a tax hike. No wonder the bill was 
written in the secret caverns out of public view in this Capitol.
  And that's just the way it is.

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