John W. Olver: “To follow up on that, Mr. Speaker, to go back to where I was, in fact, polling, which is something that is continually…”

“To follow up on that, Mr. Speaker, to go back to where I was, in fact, polling, which is something that is continually being done, the people at the top do not express with any strength that they need great tax cuts. They are already making very large incomes, doing extremely well in the economy that we have been seeing. The people who are telling us that they really need tax cuts are in fact those folks with under $35,000 a year of income, under the middle income in this country, and particularly young families trying to start out, and particularly those who are working mothers, who are the heads of their own households. Those are the families that need the tax reduction, the tax break, the tax cuts that we have. Our plan, the Democratic plan, among those five out of six families that fall into the 91 million families, our plan gives to those 40 million families that have less than $25,000 or so of income, we give them a substantial tax cut that will help them, exactly the people who need it the most. Really, I had to smile at the leader's comment about this being class warfare. In fact, it is exactly the opposite. It is the Republican plan which is conducting class warfare, and we have merely, as the gentleman said, commented on it. We have made it public, in essence.”