Eva M. Clayton: “we really are about fairness here. I would suggest to our former speaker that we sometimes want to see that fairness go…”

“we really are about fairness here. I would suggest to our former speaker that we sometimes want to see that fairness go both ways. Mr. Speaker, under the fictitious banner of a fair tax bill, there is a relentless and unswerving drive that has been launched by the Republican party against the average working American. This drive is designed to give tax relief to the wealthy Americans who earn more than $200,000 and more. It is a crusade that is oblivious to the harm that is caused in its wake. They plan to give $277 billion in spending cuts. The bulk of these spending cuts will come from reducing discretionary spending and the welfare reform, according to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich]. They also plan $190 billion in tax cuts, the bulk of which will go to the richest citizens in America. In other words, Mr. Speaker, what you have to do is add the cuts for poor people and the average working American and give those tax cuts to the richest persons in America. The difference in this equation is a loss to low- and middle-income Americans. To mollify people with money, they are causing pain to those who have very little money who are the working Americans in society.”