Brian Bilbray: “I will say this, and I need to say this so that I can go home to my bride in California this weekend. The fact is that…”

“I will say this, and I need to say this so that I can go home to my bride in California this weekend. The fact is that she showed me one individual and talked to one individual who was a classic example of the so-called tax on the rich. This person made less than $14,000 a year, but because he happened to be a Latino who had very strong religious beliefs, he did not divorce his wife. He was married and filing separate. Eighty-five percent of his Social Security is being taxed. You remember in 1993 they told those of my colleagues who were here, this is only a tax on the wealthy Social Security recipients; it is not on the poor. Well, this man would like to ask: Would somebody in Congress tell him how rich he is? I think that that is one issue that is not discussed enough and we need to start bringing it up.”