Political Quotes

“this amendment was offered last night. It is an amendment which I think most Members are conversant with because it is not a new issue. This is an issue which has been literally before Congress for almost 50 years. It is an issue of rank discrimination. It is an issue of unfairness. It is an issue of inequality. And it goes to the heart of protecting American families. The issue at hand is the deductibility of health insurance premiums. Those Americans fortunate enough to work for corporations, employees and management, enjoy a 100 percent deductibility of all health insurance premiums. I think that is good policy. It encourages health insurance protection. It protects families. If you happen to be one of the 23 million Americans who are self-employed and you buy health insurance for your family, your tax deductibility is 40 percent. What does that mean? It means, unfortunately, a higher percentage of self-employed people and their families are uninsured. It means that the children, of course, of these self-employed do not have health insurance protection, and it basically means a discrimination in our Tax Code which should have been removed long ago.”