Ron Lewis: “I just wanted to say, it is a new day when this Congress is talking about tax cuts, talking about tax reform. When we…”

“I just wanted to say, it is a new day when this Congress is talking about tax cuts, talking about tax reform. When we look back over the history of this Congress for the last 40 years, it has been tax-and-spend and big growth in government. I just want to go back for a second and go back to the capital gains tax and give an example. I talked to a farmer that was really thrilled about the possibility of a capital gains tax cut because he told me-- and this, if the liberals want to call him rich, I do not think he would agree with them--because he told me he would like to sell his farm. He is an elderly gentleman. He wants to retire. He would like to sell his farm and retire, but if he sells his farm, by the time he pays the taxes, the capital gains tax, and by the time he pays the debt on it, then he has nothing. This is not my idea of a wealthy person. To hear the rhetoric from the other side about tax breaks for the wealthy, when I am in my district, I am seeing people that need tax breaks.”