Madam Speaker, if that member across the way has the audacity to say that people who make $7,000 a year above the basic tax exemption or better are the idle rich, shame on her.
Every person, every senior of those 50,000 who makes more than the basic personal exemption of roughly $7,000 pays that 85% inclusion rate; 85% if you make more than $7,000. Shame on her.
For somebody making $8,000 in a U.S. social security benefit, for her to claim those people are the idle rich when they make more than $7,000 on that and are going to pay 85% rate of inclusion, when it was 50% before, shame on her. How dare she stand before the House and call somebody who makes $8,000 the idle rich.