[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9926]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    REDUCING THE CORPORATE TAX RATE

  (Mr. BARTLETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT. Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to rise to support my 
colleague Donna Edwards and her bill to reduce the corporate tax in 
order to create more jobs in this country.
  The corporate tax is, perhaps, the most regressive tax we have 
because, in reality, you cannot tax a corporation. It simply becomes a 
part of the cost of doing business, and they pass it on to the 
consumer, who pays the tax, which makes everything cost more that the 
consumer buys, so the consumer will be benefited in several ways when 
we reduce the corporate tax rate.
  Corporations will grow, and there will be more jobs. More 
corporations will move to this country, creating more jobs. By the way, 
the revenue stream from this increase in the size of corporations and 
in the number of corporations may actually increase as a result of 
reducing the tax rate. There will be more jobs for our consumers, and 
the things they buy will cost less. This is a win-win-win for 
everybody.
  Thank you, Congresswoman Edwards, for your leadership.

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