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New Health Care Bill Is A Middle Class Tax Hike

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 23, 2010
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, the White House has a new health care bill, but this new bill is essentially the same as the old one. It is still a hugely expensive package full of harmful tax increases for working Americans that will destroy even more jobs than Democratic policies have already destroyed.

During his campaign, the President said, ``Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase; not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax, not any of your taxes.''

That's interesting because this new health care bill includes about $136 billion in new taxes on the very group that wasn't supposed to see ``any form of tax increase.''

Mr. Speaker, the American people don't want a government takeover of health care with billions of new taxes on hardworking Americans who are struggling to make ends meet.


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