Tax Relief Legislation Providing Relief to Americans

TAX RELIEF LEGISLATION PROVIDING RELIEF TO AMERICANS -- (House of Representatives - May 23, 2006)

Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, Florida once again led the Nation in job growth during the past year with 261,000 new jobs. To continue this growth, Mr. Speaker, in Florida and the rest of the country, this Republican Congress passed a tax relief bill which ensures millions of American families, small businesses and seniors will continue to enjoy relief from budget-busting, economy-killing tax increases.

Yet despite our sustained economic success and the shrinking deficits, Democrat leadership continues to endorse policies that would slam the brakes on our economic success and our remarkable job growth. Just last week, Mr. Speaker, House Democrats, like the minority leader and the ranking Democrat member of the Ways and Means Committee, voted for a massive tax hike on hard-working Americans, more than half a trillion dollars in increased taxes over the next 5 years, or enough to pay for all the expenditures of all the governments of the Western Hemisphere combined for an entire year.

The American people, Mr. Speaker, want and deserve a fiscally responsive government, not the burdensome tax burden one that the Democrats continue to vote for.

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