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Kay Bailey Hutchison: “We believe it is un-American to make people choose between love and money. That is what the marriage penalty does. In…”

On the recordJuly 14, 2000
We believe it is un-American to make people choose between love and money. That is what the marriage penalty does. In America, if you make $30,000 and you are a schoolteacher and you marry a policeman who makes $30,000, all of a sudden, you owe more in taxes. I have to ask the question: Whose money is it? Is letting people keep more of the money they earn in their pocketbooks and to decide how they want to spend it wrong? I think we should let people keep their money. I don't consider it spending a trillion dollars, allowing people to keep the money they earn. I think it is the reverse. I believe we should not be spending other people's money, when we are running a huge surplus and don't need it in the Federal Government for new programs. I believe the American people can make better decisions about how they spend the money they earn than we can here in Washington.
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Kay Bailey Hutchison
Republican · Texas
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Discussing marriage penalty relief and tax policy on the Senate floor.

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