HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.R. NO.

10

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING THAT THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII WORK TO MAKE THE FEDERAL TAX CUTS PERMANENT.

 

WHEREAS, each year, President Bush has proposed and Congress has enacted a tax cut designed to strengthen the American economy and increase employment opportunities for working families; and

WHEREAS, tax cuts signed into law reduced income taxes for all taxpayers, eliminated the marriage penalty and Death Tax, increased the child credit rebate and business expensing, expanded Individual Retirement Accounts, and cut the double taxation of dividends and capital gains; and

WHEREAS, economic growth stemming from the latest tax cut accelerated at its fastest rate in twenty years in the third quarter of 2003; and

WHEREAS, provisions set forth in the tax cut are set to expire starting in 2005 and will be completely phased out by the year 2012; and

WHEREAS, expiration of the existing tax cuts will increase taxes by 50 per cent for lower-income families, the child credit will fall by 50 per cent, the marriage penalty will be reinstated, education savings will be taxed, retirement savings will shrink, and every taxpayer will face an income tax increase; and

WHEREAS, expiration of the existing tax cuts will result in the largest tax increase in American history and stifle economic growth; and

WHEREAS, making all the tax cuts permanent will allow taxpayers to feel more confident investing in their child's college education or saving for retirement, all while ensuring increased economic growth; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2004, that the House of Representatives of the State of Hawaii requests the Congressional delegation of the State of Hawaii to support and vote to make President Bush's tax cuts permanent; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to each member of Hawaii's Congressional delegation.

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

Congressional delegation; make federal tax cuts permanent