Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding, but especially for his leadership here in the United States Congress, and especially on the FairTax. And that introduction, Mr. Speaker, it flashes back to me some of the things that I haven't really spoken to recently and how far we haven't come over the years that this became, obviously, the best thing that we could possibly do from a tax perspective in America--or anywhere in the world, for that matter. I have often told the story, but I should say I used to tell this story often, and that is that I am running my little construction business that I started up in 1975, and we have completed 41 years in business. I was audited one too many years in a row by the IRS, and I had learned that--we didn't have copy machines in those days, so if they could ask for data, I would have just said: Here, I will run all these copies. You can analyze them. I will go out and start a machine up and go to work, make a little money so I can pay my taxes. What it really did was it shut me down. It shut me down because I had to sit there in my office and serve papers out to the auditor because I was the one who knew where the papers were, and they were in my filing cabinet. And I had learned in previous audits that I didn't want to just say: Here is the filing cabinet. I am going to work. Let me know what the bill is when you are done. It didn't work out too well for me. {time} 1715 So, I sat there for 4 days, and I served papers to the IRS.…”