Political Quotes

“today I want to raise the issue of the marriage tax penalty. Let me just frame this issue by asking some very simple questions. Do Americans feel that it is fair that a married working couple with two incomes pays higher taxes than a similar couple living together outside a marriage? Do Americans feel that it is fair that the average married working couple, two incomes, pays $1,400 more in higher taxes? Do Americans feel that it is fair that our Tax Code actually provides an incentive to get divorced? In fact, the only way a married working couple that pays a marriage tax penalty can avoid it is to file for divorce. That is just wrong. Think about it. Fourteen hundred dollars, that is a lot of money back in Illinois and throughout this country. Fourteen hundred dollars is 1 year's tuition in a local community college, 3 to 4 months of day care or child care at a local day care center. We need to make a bipartisan priority this year the elimination of the marriage tax penalty. In fact we look to President Clinton to join with us to make it a bipartisan priority to eliminate the marriage tax penalty.”