Tim Walberg: “I thank my friend. I only have to think about the fact that to the taxpayer in my State, that if this $680 billion tax…”

“I thank my friend. I only have to think about the fact that to the taxpayer in my State, that if this $680 billion tax increase goes through to pay for additional spending, deficit spending, in a budget that goes way beyond what is necessary, it means that on top of the burden that my State government has given to the hard-working taxpayers of Michigan, it gives a $3,000 per taxpayer increase on January 1, 2011, automatically. And, like you, my taxpayers that I meet with each weekend back in the district and in the 140 town hall type meetings I have held since January 4th, they are not saying, Mr. Congressman, please give us more taxes. Please give us more gas tax. Please raise the cost of our fuels. They are not saying that at all. They are saying, give us some freedom. Give us some liberty. Give us some relief. Let us do for ourselves what we can and should do, if we have the resources to do it.”