Political Quotes

“Yes. The gentleman from Wisconsin is absolutely correct. If you think about it, who are those families? Who are those individuals? They are low-income Americans. The biggest beneficiaries of the Bush tax cut, what we passed this past year, were low-income families, because low-income families saw the biggest portion of their taxes wiped out. If you think about it, 3 million Americans with children who previously had paid taxes no longer pay Federal taxes. That is total simplification of their taxes. They no longer have to pay taxes. What happens to the money that would have come to Washington? They can spend it back home in Janesville, Wisconsin, and Morris, Illinois, and Columbia, Missouri, fine communities, where there are hard-working people who can better spend their hard-earned dollars better than we can for them and take care of their families' needs, and maybe buy some new clothes for the kids to go to school, or make an addition on to the family house, build an extra bedroom for the children. They have all been bunking together, and they are getting older and they want to put an addition on the house. So they can afford to do it with the Bush tax cut. But if you vote against permanency, you are reimposing that and hurting those 3.9 million families who no longer pay taxes because of the Bush tax cut.”