Jack Kingston: “About the marriage tax penalty, I have found in my district that the Democrats and Republicans are united on that. There…”

“About the marriage tax penalty, I have found in my district that the Democrats and Republicans are united on that. There are 25 million people paying absurd taxes. People are in favor of it. Another tax decrease this House has passed is the Spanish American War tax. It is interesting, because I say with great pride, General Wheeler, who led our troops over there, and the Rough Riders with Theodore Roosevelt, actually one of his descendents lives in Savannah, Spencer Wheeler. General Wheeler was a Member of Congress, and the President actually called him out of Congress to lead our troops in Cuba. What is interesting, I have talked to Spencer Wheeler, a doctor in Savannah, about it. I said, there is a tax that is still around that helped finance the Spanish American War, and it is a little tax on our telephone bills; not a huge tax, but it was earmarked or it was implemented for a certain purpose, it was earmarked for that purpose. But according to my history, we have been finished with the Spanish American War a long time. Yet, only in Washington do these things live on and on forever. We have passed that bill. I think the Senate is going to pass it. I hope the President will sign it. Again, it is common sense, kill the Spanish American War tax. We are finished with it.”