Asa Hutchinson: “I commend the Senator from Minnesota. I don't know of a Senator who has been more consistent, more persistent, more…”

“I commend the Senator from Minnesota. I don't know of a Senator who has been more consistent, more persistent, more determined, more resolute in trying to reduce the tax burden under which the American people labor, trying to simplify this very onerous Tax Code under which we operate, than Senator Rod Grams of Minnesota. I am glad to associate myself with his comments today. I suppose it is inappropriate to say, ``Happy anniversary,'' because the anniversary we remember today is not one that is a source of happiness. Mr. President, 86 years ago today--March 8, 86 years ago today--the Federal Government implemented the 16th amendment, ratified in 1913, and began at that point eating away at the income of the American worker. Perhaps that date, March 8, is a day that ought to ``live in infamy.'' But, then, maybe we should not be too hard on those who enacted the income tax amendment. I believe they could never have envisioned, they never could have imagined, what would have happened under the guise of the income tax.”