On the recordMarch 3, 2011
I would just like to point out the louder one yells and the more one says it, as I told my children when they were little, doesn't make it true or correct. I think that we need to get down to the facts in this matter. Saying that paying back an overpayment is a tax increase is dissembling at best. It is the return of money that was not entitled by a particular individual. Democrats were for this before they were against it. To say it's a tax increase is simply wrong. Democrats created this mess. Democrats made the IRS, of all organizations, the arbiter of health care. I mean I think we need to get down to the truth here and not make the mistake of--since we're incurring issues of values and honor and faith here, Isaiah the prophet made the comment that beware of those who call good ``evil'' and evil ``good'' or sweet ``sour'' or sour ``sweet.'' There is a consequence that comes with that, and the American people are entitled to the truth. Democrats increase taxes. Democrats increase costs. Democrats increase complexity of government. My friends on the other side of the aisle, frankly, misrepresented the facts of this bill at best or are completely ignorant of the process they set in motion unilaterally. Indeed, to call this a tax increase reminds me of the health care debate last year when we were told we just had to read the bill to find out what was in it. I don't think you read the bill under any circumstances.
