Eva M. Clayton: “I have always been told that it is more important to watch what one does rather than what one says. The Republicans say…”

“I have always been told that it is more important to watch what one does rather than what one says. The Republicans say that this tax is not for the wealthy, but what do they do? More than 100 of their own Members signed a letter urging their leaders to reduce coverage of the tax cut from those earning from $200,000 to that of $95,000. They say that this tax cut is not about making sure that the wealthy at the expense of low and middle income, but what do they do? Mr. Chairman, yesterday the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich] passed around this letter. Clearly in that letter it showed the spending cuts coming from the low-income and middle-income people will be for what, to pay for the tax cut. They say this bill is the Contract With America, relief of 1995, but what will they do? Who do they give relief to? They give relief to the privileged few and little relief to the rest of America. They say this bill is senior-friendly. But what do they do? Nearly three-fourths of the senior tax relief will go to the seniors who make $75,000 or more. To which seniors are they willing to be friendly? They say this bill is a fair bill. In fact, they call this bill the tax fairness of 1995. But what do they do? They unfairly and unequally distribute the benefits and the burdens. Guess what, they give the benefits to those who have a lot of money and give the burdens to those who have very little or minimal income.”