Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2014

Floor Speech

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Mr. CRAPO. Mr. President, although it has been a couple of years now since we passed the health care law, it is becoming evident to all Americans that there were in fact many new taxes--almost $1 trillion of new taxes--in the health care law. And despite the President's firm pledge at that time not to raise taxes by even one dime on middle-income Americans, I at that time asked the Joint Tax Committee to evaluate the law and tell us if there were such taxes in the law.

The letter I received back from the Joint Tax Committee indicated there were at least seven taxes in the health care law that did squarely hit the middle class--and not just in a small way. It is at least a quarter trillion dollars of new taxes that the middle class will pay if we don't fix it. In fact, it is 73 million American families that will ultimately pay this new tax in the ObamaCare legislation if we don't reform it.

This is an amendment I brought during the consideration of the health care law. It was defeated then by a claim that there were no taxes in the bill. We now know there are taxes in the bill, and this is our chance, now that these taxes are beginning to be implemented, to remove them from the law.

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