Political Quotes

“Like the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Riley), I have a son married here recently. Every young person who gets married now all of a sudden realizes what we are talking about is very real. And it is very unfair, as the gentleman has been pointing out today, to have a couple, where one earned $30,500 a year as a single person and was paying a relatively modest amount of taxes, pretty much in that 15 percent bracket, and then they get married to somebody else who is earning another $30,500 a year, and all of a sudden they are bumped up. They have a 28 percent tax bracket, which neither one would have been in to the degree they are if they had been not married, if they had been single still. What we are doing and the gentleman is doing tomorrow, what we did actually in the bill that the gentleman helped us with so much last year, the tax bill the President vetoed, was to try to correct that problem. It is fairly straightforward, that we want to treat married couples, especially those which we consider moderate to middle-income married couples, equally and fairly, and the low-income people too.”