JOHN LINDER: “Their own study, because the gentleman and I have met with them, shows the economy will grow faster under this system…”

That is right. So the consumer of that small business not only pays the $100 plus the payroll tax, it also pays the $724.

The average income earner pays a 28 percent withholding tax and 7.65 percent, their share of the payroll tax. Their increase in take-home pay would be about 55 percent the next day.

I do share the Ranking Member's frustration that we are talking about it again, rather than doing something about it.

ATMs ran out of cash, so now we have no idea how those funds were spent, but I suspect many can guess. The Subcommittee on Welfare, on which I serve, recently had a hearing on this fund. One witness noted taxpayers already spend an…