Political Quotes

“if the gentleman will let me have the chart for a minute, I think the interesting thing about this chart is as soon as the step takes place from the individual working, the taxpayer, putting the money into the Treasury Department by paying their taxes on April 15 or through Mr. FICA, which they pay on a weekly basis, this all of a sudden so many people no longer refer to as the taxpayer's money but as soon as that goes into here, this becomes a government dollar. So people will talk about government dollars and they will forget that really this should not be the top, this should be the foundation of the chart. The foundation of the chart is 280 million Americans paying taxes in to Washington, D.C. with private dollars, and then all of the sudden somewhere in between the taxpayer and the Department of Treasury, this becomes a government dollar. Let me tell my colleagues why I brought that up. There is a great story this week in USA Today talking about churches heed a calling to educate poor children. We all recognize that perhaps some of our lowest performing schools or lowest performing areas are in the inner city urban areas, but in their first paragraph, 'for an expected flood of neighborhood children who may soon have government dollars.' So in the first paragraph they are talking about government dollars. These are not government dollars, and the article spends a lot of time talking about vouchers. That is not what my colleague and I are talking about.”