Al Green said "I have to admit, we do not have any farmers in urban Houston, but we do grow our backyard gardens, we have tomato plants and peppers, but with this heat, they are all dead now. But I think the graph and the distribution that our colleague from North Dakota has, and I have the smaller version of it, shows almost 60 percent of the marriage tax penalty benefits and the estate tax will go to those percentage of 130,000 or more, the top 5 percent of the income brackets. That is what that shows. I think it is frustrating. We want the opportunity to show the American people that we can work together on a bipartisan basis and agree on a tax resolution and a budget that is fair." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJuly 18, 2000

I have to admit, we do not have any farmers in urban Houston, but we do grow our backyard gardens, we have tomato plants and peppers, but with this heat, they are all dead now. But I think the graph and the distribution that our colleague from North Dakota has, and I have the smaller version of it, shows almost 60 percent of the marriage tax penalty benefits and the estate tax will go to those percentage of 130,000 or more, the top 5 percent of the income brackets. That is what that shows. I think it is frustrating. We want the opportunity to show the American people that we can work together on a bipartisan basis and agree on a tax resolution and a budget that is fair.

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Al Green

Democratic · Texas

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of tax cuts on working families during a Special Order on tax issues.

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