Sam Brownback: “Less than one-third. Out of every $5 surplus you have, $1.50 is going back to married families. Does that make any…”

“Less than one-third. Out of every $5 surplus you have, $1.50 is going back to married families. Does that make any rational sense here, that we are getting $5 in and saying, OK, $1.50 is back. I think we ought to be doing far more. This ought to start the overall situation, but we are looking at least a start here. This is the sort of thing we need to do. We need to move. You ought to see the groups supporting this. The National Taxpayers Union, with 300,000 members, strongly supports the Marriage Tax Elimination Act. The Marriage Tax Elimination Act would address that and dramatically widen the scope of tax relief. This is a broad tax relief issue--21 million families, not just individuals, 21 million families, in America pay this tax penalty. Currently, laws force many married Americans to pay a higher tax bill than they would if they remained single and had the same combined income. Such a double standard is wholly at odds with the American ideal that taxes should not be a primary consideration in any individual's economic or social choices.”