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“just to continue with those charts, the first chart, this is the tax cut for working-class families. For those families earning less than $25 thousand, there is 100 percent tax cut. For those families earning less than $30,000, a 48 percent tax cut. For those less than $45,000 a 21 percent tax cut. You see the tax cut continues to go way down. Those families with over a $200,000 income only have a 2-percent tax cut. So it must be tremendously frustrating for people to look at one side of the aisle and then the other side of the aisle as we go through these charts. But if you look at what is going to happen in terms of the tax day. You know, the tax day is how much of the year you have to work so that work and that effort goes to the Federal Government to pay taxes. Currently, it is June 4. Under the budget proposal that was submitted by this president, that tax day increases to June 7. Under this tax proposal that we are going to be considering for the next 2 days, it goes back to May 26 and, my colleagues, it even should be earlier than May 26. There has been suggestions that the tax breaks go to big business. With all due respect, I suggest to you, Mr. Speaker, that taxes placed on business are passed on in the price of their products. Right now between the regulations and the taxes that we charge business, they are paying every year $750 billion.…”