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William Moorhead: “This is an unconscionable tax on innovation, a tax on American inventors for seeking to share with the American public…”

On the recordJuly 23, 1996
This is an unconscionable tax on innovation, a tax on American inventors for seeking to share with the American public the results of their creativity. This amendment offered by the gentleman from West Virginia proposes to take another $34 million from America's patent applicants to fund the Legal Services Corporation. If my colleagues believe in the Legal Services Corporation, take it from the taxpayers and not one specific group of people who pay entirely for the support of their own agency. This tax on innovation, this theft from American inventors, must be rejected.
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William Moorhead
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Discussing funding sources for the Legal Services Corporation and its impact on patent applicants.

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