Sam Brownback: “I am simply saying, before we give the legislature its money, let's give some American families their money back in a…”

“I am simply saying, before we give the legislature its money, let's give some American families their money back in a small tax cut. Actually, I think we could do far better than this, but a tax cut that they should have. The irony of that is, I think, if we were able to get it up for a vote, there would be a number of my Democrat colleagues who would agree that we should do away with the marriage tax penalty. This is a ridiculous notion, way out of step with all of our rhetoric, way out of step with the rhetoric of everybody running for public office in America, talking about the need to support family and family values. We tax families more than we do people who are not in a family situation--not that we should penalize those either, but this should just all be level.”