On the recordDecember 19, 2019
I won't take a full minute. Mr. Speaker, I want to first start by saying how much I respect and admire Mr. Cole, and I have worked closely with him on many issues. I just want to make one point, though. So many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have been boasting about the fact that people are leaving States like mine to move to their States. That has been one of the effects of this tax bill by eliminating the State and local tax cap. What happens when people leave my State and move to the Southwest or the Southeast? They leave behind lower- and middle-income-tax people to pick up the bill. They are trying to boast about the fact that our States, which are mature, industrial States that have old roads, old bridges, old sewers, old schools, and old hospitals, when we get money from the Federal Government, we have got to fix up those legacy issues. We have got to deal with pockets of poverty because we have been around for a longer time. Their States are growing when they get money from us. We are subsidizing the rest of the country. When they get money from the Federal Government, what are they using it for? New sewers, new roads, new bridges, new hospitals, and new schools. They are growing, and they are bringing in new sales and new property taxes. They are trying to take credit for it when really it is because of the progressive income tax and the money that has come from our States that has helped their States to succeed.…
