Political Quotes

“I have an important question to ask, and that is what is the President going to do about the marriage tax penalty? Over the last 2 years, dozens of us in this House have asked the important question, is it right, is it fair, that under our Tax Code married working couples with two incomes pay higher taxes than identical couples with identical incomes living together outside of marriage. We believe it is wrong that 21 million married working couples pay higher taxes just because they are married; and this Congress, this Republican Congress, has passed, the end of July, legislation which will eliminate the marriage tax penalty for a majority of those who suffer it. The question we have: Is the President going to join with us and make it a bipartisan effort to eliminate the marriage tax penalty by signing into law the tax cut when we send it to him later this week? Twenty-one million married working couples pay $1,400 more in higher taxes just because they are married. Is it not time that we eliminate the marriage tax penalty?”