[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25663]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             HEALTH CARE REFORM OR SMALL BUSINESS DISASTER?

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, it's going to be a rough time to be a small 
business owner if the Democrat health care reform plan becomes law. 
Their government takeover of health care hits taxpayers with more than 
$820 billion in tax hikes. This plan also includes a new $540 billion 
tax on the so-called ``rich'' to bankroll this health care scheme.
  The problem? According to IRS data, more than half of those who will 
be hit with this new tax are small business owners. Small businesses 
are our economy's engine for job growth. In fact, in the past, they 
have created 72 percent of all new jobs. If you're like me, you would 
like to see more job growth right now, not less. But small businesses 
will be hit hard by the new taxes in this plan, severely hampering 
their ability to create jobs and help us emerge from this economic 
downturn.
  This doesn't sound like health care reform. It sounds like a 
disaster.

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