Rob Woodall: “I thank my friend. And I would encourage folks, if you have any--if you want the black and white on this issue, go back…”

“I thank my friend. And I would encourage folks, if you have any--if you want the black and white on this issue, go back to the Joint Tax Committee Tax Symposium. The Joint Tax Committee invited in everyone from the far-right economists to the far-left economists and said, Take a look at America's Tax Code and take a look at a consumption tax like the FairTax and tell me what it would do for the American economy, for families, for jobs. Every single economist--not some, not most, every single economist-- said a consumption tax, a move away from our current tax system will grow the American economy. Some said a little, some said a lot. But we can do better. There is not a single Member of this Chamber who defends the current Tax Code as being the best we can do. It is not. The FairTax just may be the best we can do. If you are not quite ready for the FairTax--and I hope you are; it is H.R. 25--let me refer to the Better Way agenda. The chairman mentioned it earlier. It is on the Speaker's Web site, betterway.speaker.gov. It is on better.gop as well. The chairman of the Ways and Means Committee laid out a fundamental change in the way we do taxes. It is the most consumption tax-based plan a Ways and Means chairman has ever produced for this institution. It is not the FairTax, but dadgummit, it is moving us in the right direction. If you want some encouragement about what is doable, about what we are able to bring ourselves together around, about what can really, Mr.…”