JOHN LINDER: “The average income earner pays a 28 percent withholding tax and 7.65 percent, their share of the payroll tax. Their…”

As a matter of fact, I was in the Chair and I was accused of shutting down the vote while people were in the well seeking to vote. And the next day the C-SPAN tapes proved you were wrong and I was right. The people coming in to vote were…

I simply cannot support the creation of a new entitlement that would send another $8.5 billion in unpaid-for Federal spending out the door.

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

My daughter at 35, she is now 37, called me and she said what in the world is AMT. She has got four little boys and the deductions and a fairly decent income gets them into the AMT. When it was set in 1969, it captured 90,000 taxpayers. In…