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Dana Rohrabacher: let me note that one of the prior speakers from the other side of the aisle was talking about the tax cut going to the…

On the recordMay 9, 2003
let me note that one of the prior speakers from the other side of the aisle was talking about the tax cut going to the richest part of America, which they defined as any family earning over $75,000 a year. Now, I would hope that every working family out there, where a man and woman working as hard as they do in order to make ends meet, realizes that if their total family income is over $75,000, the people on this side of the aisle have been labeling them as the rich, as the wealthy, as the people who need to be exploited in order to help all the other people. This is quite disturbing. It is certainly disturbing to me. I do not come from a wealthy family and the people I know work really hard in order to have a family income of $75,000 a year. Let me note that in our package, we are hearing a complaint that we are helping families that earn $75,000 a year, we are hearing complaints we have included a child tax credit, we are hearing a complaint we have ended the marriage penalty tax, that we have tried to give the seniors a little relief on their earnings limitations, things that were dramatically reversed in the opposite direction during the Clinton years when the Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress and the presidency. They just went to work on all of the ordinary Americans. Of course, ordinary Americans are anyone who earns under $75,000.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Discussing tax cuts and their implications for families earning over $75,000.

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