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Sam Gibbons: “This week we are going to bring up the elimination of the sunset clause for the marriage penalty tax. Mr. Speaker…”

On the recordJune 12, 2002
This week we are going to bring up the elimination of the sunset clause for the marriage penalty tax. Mr. Speaker, 120,000 individuals in my State, 60,000 married couples, are affected by this tax. If we allow this tax to come back, to rise from the dead one more time in the year 2010, we are going to do severe injustice to those 60,000 couples. Couples are going to end up paying $1,300, $1,400 more in tax simply because they are married. This is an unjust and unfair clause, and we must eliminate the sunset clause so that this tax remains buried once and for all. We cannot afford to have our married couples deciding whether or not they should remain married over paying a tax.
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Sam Gibbons
Florida
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Discussing the elimination of the sunset clause for the marriage penalty tax.

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