Jack Kingston

As I talk to different civic clubs and have town meetings and talk about the difference between a flat tax and a consumption tax, one of the things that I realize, speaking for myself and speaking for the folks in the audience, is we all…

New Jersey cut taxes. Gov. Christine Todd Whitman made good on a campaign promise and cut taxes and as a result they have had growth. Massachusetts, under Dukakis, had high tax increases. Under Governor Weld they enacted an income tax…

This is the situation with the gross income taxes, the couple, once they are married, actually end up paying more taxes. I will not go through this, but just suffice it to say that basically each individual is in a lower percentage tax…

The tax simplification argument really sets the stage for a thorough flat tax versus consumption tax debate. We have, in fact, two of our colleagues, the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Largent] and the gentleman from New York [Mr. Paxon]…

Yes. I want to point out something about the national sales tax. I know England, Britain, has a high sales tax, but they exempt groceries from it and children's clothes, among other things. So we can, for the seniors or those who could…

just to underscore what the gentleman is saying, when we talk about we need an IRS attitude adjustment, I have a rural district with a lot of farmers who work with the Soil Conservation Service or the Farm Service Agency, and generally…

I wanted to read my colleagues a letter we received from the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. It says, ``As in many areas where education opportunities are poor, a disproportionate number of the children attending failing schools in our…

North Korea. Major U.S. competitors will be exempt from this Clinton gas tax proposal. And why the administration thinks the time is right to increase the gas tax 20 to 40 cents a gallon----

One thing I would like to see discussion on, instead of just straight more tax relief, perhaps move towards tax simplification, with the intent of accelerating the debt pay-down, because if we can do it this way in the year 2026, if we…

The line-item veto only applies for deficit reduction. So if, in fact, the deficit is zeroed out next year and the budget is balanced, which we all hope that it is, we will effectively not have a line-item veto. The gentleman from Michigan…

Regardless of the deficit reduction and potentially balancing the budget next year, we still spend about $300 billion a year on interest on the $5.4 trillion national debt. Now, that is the second or third largest single item on the entire…

Dwight Eisenhower said that, ``Once the American people have made up their mind to do something, there is little that can be done to stop them.'' I agree with that. I think the American people have made up their mind. Congress has to keep…

I thought we were together, on a bipartisan basis, on the IRS reform. I had no idea that the administration was going to defend the IRS and try to make tax reform a partisan issue. But I will say this. If it is a partisan issue, the…

This is not Republican propaganda. This is an actual newspaper headline. The Washington Times, a well-respected newspaper. The headline of it, Tuesday, September 30, 1997, ``White House Champions The IRS. President opposes citizen…

In between the blue line of where the money actually is and the green line of where the plan is, I am scared to death that even on a bipartisan basis we will rush out and spend the money. I always say this is like somebody who is on a…

Can the gentleman imagine a Washington IRS-type bureaucracy building local schools? I know to some liberals that is a great deal. It is interesting, as a matter of fact. Here is a copy of the Washington Times as of last Tuesday where the…

It is interesting because some of our colleagues right now are really pushing a Federal takeover of local school construction. They want the Federal Government to go in and build school systems. Now, as the gentleman knows, bricks and…

I think the important point of all this is there are a lot of different savings accounts that may work for a family, but the emphasis is that the tax system as we have passed it recognizes the importance of saving for the future. Right now…

Under the Neumann budget, which you authored and I supported, had that passed, that deficit would have been zero probably.

The capital gains tax rate has been 28 percent on items that a person sells for a gain, the amount of money that they have made on it. Now, it is ironic because there again we are taxing savings and we are taxing money that has already had…

Yet as we are discussing this, and with a lot of gleam, I would say, to the degree that the deficit has fallen, the numbers are roughly about $260 billion down to $23 billion.

The way I always explain it, we get a lot of criticism: Why are you trying to cut taxes? I say it is very fundamental. Middle class people have more of their money, more of their own money in their pocket because we in Washington…

That is exactly right. Because what is going to happen, the local drug store and the sporting goods store, the local restaurant, local clothing store will all expand to meet the new demand because American consumers have $300 or $400 more…

I also have a question for you: We, in Congress, have been trying to hold hearings to determine if certain people gave a certain administration illegal contributions. Our problem is that key witnesses have inconveniently disappeared. This…

when the White House was having organized fundraising events in the Lincoln bedroom for Democrat fundraising purposes, when it was raised by Republicans, Democrats said, ``You are being partisan.'' When the Vice President of the United…