On the recordJune 25, 1997
Our colleague from Arkansas further pointed out that this family in the portrait that he had, that they paid the payroll taxes and certainly paid taxes toward Medicare and somehow that that ennobled the family to receive these income tax credits. But the fact is that paying Medicare taxes and paying the payroll taxes entitles that family to reap the benefits of Medicare down the road or to reap the benefits of Social Security. So the fact that that family is paying those payroll taxes and Medicare taxes, those benefits will come and inure to that family at the appropriate time. But because we have limited resources and tax relief, we are trying to give tax relief to those Americans who most need it.
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