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Rob Woodall: This is my first time down here as a freshman during Special Orders, my first time trying to coordinate charts and talk…

On the recordNovember 18, 2011
This is my first time down here as a freshman during Special Orders, my first time trying to coordinate charts and talk the talk and walk the walk all at the same time. But I'm excited about it because I'm down here to talk about the Fair Tax. And if folks don't know what the Fair Tax is, it's H.R. 25. You can find it at www.thomas.gov, that site that everybody should have bookmarked if you care about what goes on here on the House floor. Because if you don't know, everything that goes on here is available in realtime at www.thomas.gov. It's done through the Library of Congress. It's not a Republican thing or a Democrat thing. It's just the real deal, what's actually happening down here. And if you go and you look up H.R. 25, it's the Fair Tax. What the Fair Tax is is a bill that repeals all income-based Federal taxes and replaces them with consumption-based taxes. Now, my friend from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) was just down here on the House floor, Mr. Speaker. He was talking about our Founding Fathers and those things that were happening between 1776 and 1787. And in that time, we funded all the Federal Government with consumption taxes--it was not income taxes; it was consumption taxes--under the theory that if you had enough resources to go out and buy that silver tea set from England, then you had enough resources to help fund the Republic.…
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Rob Woodall
Georgia
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Nov 18, 2011

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