Jack Kingston: “My friend, Lois Van Ryn Stock, turned 40 on Monday, and in so many ways Lois epitomizes the best of baby boomers. She is…”

“My friend, Lois Van Ryn Stock, turned 40 on Monday, and in so many ways Lois epitomizes the best of baby boomers. She is bright, intelligent, ambitious, attractive, and of high moral fiber. Yet she also symbolizes the tragedy of baby boomers, because Monday also marked her 20th year in the workplace, 20 years of sacrifice and saving and sweating, only to know that tomorrow when she pays her taxes, and 42 percent of her total income goes to taxes, she will have to work until June until she reaches tax freedom day, when she and her husband, Bill, can start working for themselves. And she knows that most of the taxes they pay will be squandered by politicians and bureaucrats. Mr. Speaker, Lois and her middle-class counterparts need some relief. When the middle class quits working, bye-bye bureaucracy, bye-bye Congress, bye-bye America, because we cannot make it without the middle class. Since the President will not honor his pledge for a middle-class tax cut, let us do it as Members of Congress. Mr. Speaker, Lois needs some relief.”