Hilda L. Solis: “Mr. Speaker, I rise also to express my strong support for the Rangel substitute and to thank the ranking member for his…”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise also to express my strong support for the Rangel substitute and to thank the ranking member for his continual struggle for equitable and just tax laws. Just tax laws are fiscally responsible and fairly allocated. Nowhere is this injustice of the Republican leadership better illustrated than in the shrewd treatment of the child tax credit. To ensure at all costs that the rich campaign donors will get the maximum tax credits, Republicans cut out 200,000 military families that they just sent to war, these men and women that are serving abroad. They cut out working families. They cut out single working mothers. They cut out hard working people from all over the world who come to America to seek a better life and play by the rules and pay taxes. I looked at my district in Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley and East Los Angeles, and saw that one out of four families would get no tax relief. In fact, in my own district, I do not even have one single millionaire. So there you go. People pay in but they do not get anything out. And I saw that instead they would be saddled with the huge debts of tax. For years to come their children have to bear this. They would lose essential health care services.”