Political Quotes

“I did push this measure as an initiative in the State of Arizona, and it passed with the support of 72 percent of the voters. And like the other States which have adopted a measure of this nature, Arizona's economy has gotten dramatically stronger since we passed this measure. I rise in strong support of it... This measure is simple and straightforward. Anyone identifying what they believe to be a loophole in our law, a corporate loophole favoring some taxpayer, can with a simple majority close that loophole provided that we return those taxes that were being extracted to the voters rather than keep them here in Washington. Mr. Speaker, this is a simple measure designed to make it slightly harder for the Federal Government and this U.S. Congress to raise your taxes yet one more time. Let us begin by looking at the tax increases we have faced in this Nation and the tax burden today. This chart on my left shows us that in 1950, the Federal tax bite required that an average family with children send $1 to Washington for every $50 that it earned, $1 for every $50. By 1996, the chart demonstrates a dramatic change. That figure is not $1 in $50 sent to Washington, it is now $1 out of $4; earn $4, send 1 of them to Washington, DC.”