Todd Tiahrt: “one way to think about our tax policy is to consider two opposite cases. Under a tax regime that took every penny of…”

“one way to think about our tax policy is to consider two opposite cases. Under a tax regime that took every penny of what you earned, that would certainly be considered tyranny. Under a tax regime that allowed you freedom to do whatever you wished to do with that money that you earned, that would be considered maximum freedom. Well, today we can move our tax regime toward the direction of more freedom and away from the direction of more tyranny. ``Tyranny'' means absence of freedom. It means that a truck driver who earns $100 after driving 100 miles finds that he is not free to do what he wishes with that money because the Government takes a quarter to a half of it. He is taxed on the coffee he drinks. He is taxed on the fuel that he burns in his truck. He pays taxes on the truck. He pays income taxes. No wonder he feels ripped off. It is time to move to more freedom and less Government tyranny. It is time for more tax relief and less Government waste.”