I am down here with some of my colleagues to talk about one thing, and one thing only in our time, and that is about igniting America's economy. We can talk all we want to about putting people back to work; but nibbling around the edges of the American economy isn't going to solve the problem for the men and women in the Seventh District of Georgia, nor the men and women in the great State of Texas, nor the men and women in Alabama, or anywhere across this country. What we need is a competitive advantage on the rest of the world. We have the most capable workforce on the planet. We have the hardest working workforce on the planet. We have the best infrastructure on the planet. We have the most freedom on the planet. Why is it, Mr. Speaker, that we then would not have the most robust and growing economy on the planet? I tell you it is for one reason, and one reason only, and that is the burden of the American Tax Code on the American entrepreneur. It is the burden of the American Tax Code on those men and women who want to make America great, who want to put people back to work, but who cannot do it because the Tax Code disadvantages them relative to the rest of the world. Mr. Speaker, there is an idea in this Chamber--and you know it well-- it is called the FairTax, and it is H.R. 25. Anybody in America can look it up. It is at www.congress.gov. In just over 100 pages, H.R.…
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