Tom Tancredo: “I rise in support of H.R. 1264, the Right- to-Know National Payroll Act, offered by my friend, the gentleman from…”

“I rise in support of H.R. 1264, the Right- to-Know National Payroll Act, offered by my friend, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra). In Colorado, there was an employer who at one point in time opened two windows giving his employees payments in cash at one window for all the time. They went to the next window and he took from them the taxes they had to pay back. The fact is that IRS made him stop that practice because it was too truthful. They had to know exactly what was being paid. The employer wanted the employees to know how much they were making, how much it was costing him to employ them so he gave them their total payment in cash. They moved to the next window, as I say, and they had to pay back their income taxes, their State taxes and their Social Security taxes so that they would have a sense of exactly what it was that taxes were costing them. Now, this only went on for a relatively short time until, as I say, the IRS stepped in and said this cannot be done. They disallowed it. But from my point of view, this proposal, the proposal of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra), H.R. 1264, is in the vein of full disclosure. As the previous speakers have alluded to, this will help workers understand the constraints employers face when seeking to create jobs, increase pay and compete effectively in a global economy, and it shatters the myth that taxes and mandates can be placed on employers without affecting workers themselves.”