Political Quotes

“I believe my experience in the State of Missouri is probably like the experience that most of us have had in our own States. As we travel around and talk to farmers, to people involved in small business, to truck drivers, day care operators, people who work for themselves, they ask an unanswerable question: Why is it that I can only deduct, now, 40 percent of what I pay in health insurance premiums for myself and my family when my neighbor next door who works for a large corporation, or in the country when my neighbor next door who works for a large corporate farm gets his or her health care paid and the employer deducts 100-percent of what they pay and they do not have to include any of the health insurance on their income tax? Why does the self-employed person only get to deduct 40 percent? Frankly, there is no answer, Mr. President. There is a gross inequity in this system.”