Jack Kingston: “I have a letter from a woman in Savannah, Georgia. "Dear Mr. Kingston, I recently heard you say how much taxes have…”

“I have a letter from a woman in Savannah, Georgia. "Dear Mr. Kingston, I recently heard you say how much taxes have increased since the 1950s. Can you give me those statistics again? I am a homemaker in Savannah, Georgia, with four children and would greatly appreciate the ability of our family to keep more of its hard-earned money. Signed, Elizabeth Morris." The income tax burden in the 1950s... was 5 percent. In the 1970s... it was 16 percent. Today it is 24 percent. That is just the income tax. That is not talking about the property taxes and all the other incurred taxes that our constituents and hard-working middle-class people have to pay. But the reality is the higher our tax burden, the less time we have to spend with our family, with our children imparting values, teaching them the work ethic, teaching them right from wrong, because that second income in the family often is going to pay for Uncle Sam and our excesses.”