Brian Bilbray: “April 15 is a very important date in my family because my mother was a tax consultant. My family has been involved in…”

“April 15 is a very important date in my family because my mother was a tax consultant. My family has been involved in income tax for 45 years and my wife now runs a business. While I keep hearing this discussion about the constitutional issue, let me remind you, the Founding Fathers not just once but twice specifically in the Constitution said the income tax should not be allowed. Twice in article 1. The first thing they did is they said you make sure you have fair apportionment of representation in the House of Representatives and a fair apportionment of taxes. So when someone brings up the founding Fathers, let us go back to the Founding Fathers' constitutional document and the 16th amendment was the only amendment that specifically reversed the direction of the Founding Fathers. It should have included a supermajority at the time the 16th was passed. Mr. Speaker, my family has listened to working-class people talk about being taxed too much and every time I hear people on the other side of the aisle say, 'We're only raising the taxes on the rich,' go ask the middle-class people in my community in Imperial Beach and in San Diego and whenever you are going to lower the taxes, 'Oh, it's only going to be lowered on the rich.' Let us be frank and open about it. That is what it is all about. You want more money to increase spending so you get more power in Washington and less freedom as individuals.”