JOHN LINDER: “The adoption of the rule will put in place limiting language that will prevent any expansion of those benefits.”

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

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

Wealthy people pay taxes on personal consumption, and wealth has no meaning unless it is spent on personal consumption. If I had $100 million and lived in a $20,000 home and drove a used car, that $100 million would mean nothing to me. So…

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…