On the recordDecember 19, 2019
I wasn't going to speak today on the rule, but I am just so outraged when I hear people attacking States like mine and other States. My State, the State of New York, is the largest single net donor to the Federal Government of any State in the United States of America. We send $48 billion a year more to the Federal Government than we get back. And to hear this talk about irresponsible States that are really subsidizing these other States of the speakers who have spoken from the other side today is just so irresponsible and so divisive in our Nation. We talk about this bill, about restoring tax fairness, that is exactly what it is: tax fairness. It is not fair that people are taxed on the taxes they have already paid. It is not fair that State and local governments who pick up the garbage and plow the roads and protect our people and educate our children are being forced to have to worry about more money being used to subsidize the rest of the country. It is not fair that this has been in place since 1913, and they want to try and change this covenant that has existed since the beginning of the Federal tax code. They want to change it at this time, and it is completely unfair. Let me point out, with one last point, that 100 percent of this bill is paid for by the highest earners in the United States of America. One hundred percent is paid for by the highest earners. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
