JOHN LINDER

the President's tax commission has completed its work and sent its report to the Treasury Department. When this started 8 or 9 months ago, I said as often as I could that I wish you would not appoint a commission because the only thing…

this week I organized a subcommittee visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help our Members learn about efforts to support the DHS mission to prevent bioattacks. We were briefed on aerosolized anthrax and botulinum…

as the bill's sponsor, I rise to support H.R. 135, the 21st Century Water Commission Act. H.R. 135 will bring together our Nation's premier water experts to recommend strategies for meeting our water challenges in the 21st century. I would…

I have been a member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for 6 years, and I am very proud and privileged to serve on that committee and have served on the committee when 9/11 occurred and obviously since that time. I want to…

we precisely made the decision in the drafting of this bill not to fight the battle over increasing or decreasing revenues; we would lose votes on that issue alone, not to eliminate all the excise taxes, we would lose 150 votes in this…

Companies are leaving our shores not because they hate America, not because they are mean-spirited; they are leaving our shores because they are being driven off. They are being driven off by the tax system that embeds so much into the…

there have been a variety of numbers, I know it is huge. I got all of the regulations at one time in my office and stacked them on the floor up to here, and it was huge. However, it is so complicated that no one understands it. It is…

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…

Whatever you choose to do, it is your money. You made it, and you spend it, and you can spend it anonymously without having to go to the government.

You told it to me once. It is the difference between someone who is a big believer and a fanatic.

in the last 5 or 6 weeks, a bill that I introduced, H.R. 25, the FAIR Tax, has been getting a great deal of interest in the national press, part of it because the Speaker mentioned it in the book he recently published, and part because the…

It is over a trillion dollars right there in the underground economy. Just three portions of it in a recent book published by an economy, pornography, illicit drugs and illegal labor constitute a trillion dollar economy. When I speak to…

Let us remind them that no business inputs are taxed. No tractor will be taxed. No barn will be taxed. Anything used in the business is tax free. No seeds will be taxed. I tell the farmers if you buy a tractor to work your land, there is…

I respond to it that people do not put money under the mattress anymore. Wealthy people spend more than poor people. They will pay a higher share of the total cost of government; but to the extent that they do not spend that money, they…

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…

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

Well, I do not know where the numbers come from. The IRS admits it is $5 trillion. The people who are in the offshore financial centers say it is $6 trillion. But we just did some minor research. We know that the high-tech industry itself…

I want a system where nobody in the government knows how much you make or how you make it or how you spend it. I want a system that funds us at the current level, consistently, but does not keep track of us and will give you the privilege…

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.

10 years ago, 25 hearty souls met for 3 hours every week to decide whether we could change the course of America, led by then House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. We said that if you gave us the authority and the power, we would change the…

I was watching some of the coverage on TV of the debate and saw some of the worst demagoguery I have ever seen in my life. And we will hear it again and again. It is true that the gentleman from South Carolina is a cosponsor of a bill for…

I guess it is too much for people to read the 132-page bill. We get rid of the payroll tax, we do not leave it in place, and there is simply no tax on farmers. It is only on personal consumption, and the Farm Bureau is very close to…

I rise in support of this structured rule, and thank my friend and colleague from the Rules Committee, Mrs. Myrick, for yielding me this time. H. Res. 686 is a structured rule that provides for the consideration of H.R. 4548, the FY2005…

I will agree with the argument that the Founders could not have envisioned airliners being used as missiles against skyscrapers, or even the U.S. Capitol. I do not, however, subscribe to the theory that the Founders were unable to envision…

I support passage of H. Res. 656, which is a closed rule, and urge my colleagues in the House to join me in doing so. This bill provides for the creation of personal reemployment accounts, allotting $3,000 to help unemployed individuals…