
Each month's postponement of enactment of the tax bill keeps $600 million out of wage earners' take-home pay.
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Each month's postponement of enactment of the tax bill keeps $600 million out of wage earners' take-home pay.

Every day of talk in the Senate costs workers new jobs.

The additional one point reduction in withholding rates, taking effect sometime in February, will raise the gross national product for the rest of 1964 by some $3 to $4 billion over the level that would prevail under the 15 percent rate.

It is time we stopped talking about these problems and started doing something about them.

I urge the Finance Committee to adopt a one-step reduction in withholding to 14 percent on all wages paid more than one week after enactment of H.R. 8363, while maintaining the same two-stage reduction in individual tax liabilities.

A reduction in the withholding rate to 14 percent, rather than to 15 percent, effective within one week of enactment, will compensate for the delay in enactment.

This proposed change in withholding rates would effect a better fiscal balance between revenues in fiscal 1964 and fiscal 1965.

There is only one tax reduction bill, and that bill is good for every American citizen--in whatever walk of life, in whatever income group--because it is good for America.

In summary: a reduction in the wage withholding rate to 14 percent immediately following enactment would more effectively achieve the economic objectives of the tax bill.

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We have just concluded a most interesting and most profitable conference between the Chancellor of Germany and the President of the United States.

And I think in the weeks and months ahead, you will see the fruits that flow from that very fine visit.