[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15528-15529]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   RYAN-McCONNELL REPUBLICAN TAX PLAN

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, middle class families should be the focus of 
tax relief, not billionaires, not the wealthiest Americans. 
Unfortunately, the Ryan-McConnell tax plan fails that basic test.
  Independent analysis shows that the Republican plan would actually 
raise taxes on many middle class families, giving billionaires, the top 
1 percent, the biggest breaks. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says 
that middle class families could actually pay an increase of $1,290 a 
year. Even worse, the families I represent would be asked to foot the 
bill for a big, massive giveaway to the rich.
  Under the Republican plan, the wealthiest families, 5,400 families 
that are the superwealthy in this country, would get a $270 billion 
break through the repeal of the estate tax--100 families in my home 
State of Michigan, the DeVos family, certainly the Trump family. This 
is not representative of the values of the American people.

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  Just saying that the people at the top won't benefit doesn't make it 
true. Read the bill. Look at these analyses. This is a giveaway to the 
wealthiest Americans, and it is wrong.

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