Forty-three percent of these tax breaks go to the top 1 percent, who have an average income of over $915,000 a year. This is where Governor Bush's tax breaks go. Yet Winifred Skinner--age 69, in my home State of Iowa--has to go around the streets and the roads and pick up aluminum cans so she can pay for her prescription drugs. I think that says it all.
Discussing the distribution of tax breaks during a Senate floor debate.
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