Political Quotes

“I would like to pick up on a point the gentleman made of what we hear from our constituents. That is this notion that people are just trying to be honest and just trying to do something that is honest. The fact is we all know the sense of frustration that we are hearing from our constituents is that the Tax Code has created a culture that has rewarded cheating and penalizes those who play by the rules. {time} 2030 That is what we have today, and that is a problem, that is a frustration that we hear from people. When we were on Easter recess, there was a report by the IRS showing that there goes about $350 billion of unreported income, which would wipe the deficit off by three-quarters of this country. People who are hiding income, playing games, not reporting it, forcing the middle class to pay an ever-increasing amount of money, they are basically cheating. We know it is going on. They think the $350 billion is a low number. It is getting worse as the tax code has gotten worse, and yet we are putting middle class families further behind on health care bills, college costs, trying to figure out how to save for their retirement and a tax burden and a tax code that does not do justice to what they are trying to do as parents and as a family. So we have a code that rewards cheating. It promotes a culture of cheating and a code that on the other end is the middle class family. It penalizes those who play by the rules and try to do the right thing by their family.…”