We Need to Roll Back the Tax Cuts and Develop an Exit Strategy to Get Out of Iraq
Kucinich gave the following speech in Congress on September 20, 2005:
"Madam Speaker, I want to agree with my good friend from Texas (Mr. DeLay) that we need to do everything we can to avoid any kind of tax hikes.
"However, I think all Americans would expect that the top 1 percent of the income earners in this country, who receive most of the benefit from the administration's tax cuts, should have to give up some of their tax cuts in order to relieve the burden on the people in the Gulf Coast. It is only fair.
"America can meet its responsibilities, but we are going to have to roll back those tax breaks that were given to the wealthiest Americans, in order to help the least of our brethren.
"We can also save money by planning an exit strategy out of Iraq. Wherever I go in my district, people say, get us out of Iraq. Well, it is time for us to have an exit strategy. That is what House Joint Resolution 55 is about, a bipartisan exit strategy.
"We can do things to have the resources to take care of people in the Gulf. But we first have to get out of the Persian Gulf. And we also have to get out of this thinking that says that tax cuts are somehow the way to economic recovery."
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