Gilbert Gutknecht: “I agree with you. If we can get people to just think in those terms…”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2004

I agree with you. If we can get people to just think in those terms, all of sudden they are going to be say, well, let us have this right now. Why have we waited. Why do we have this unbelievable system that I have to go down to my accountant and I have to worry about this and I have to worry about that. All of the sudden we have a very simple system that is only about how much I really consume. Not how much I spend to produce a product, how much I spend to produce a crop, how much I invest to produce a new job or a new business or a new product or whatever. This is consumption. And if we can get people to talk about consumption taxes, all of the sudden this whole debate becomes very, very simple. And people say, well, this makes perfect sense.

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Gilbert Gutknecht

Republican · Minnesota

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Discussing the benefits of consumption taxes during a floor speech.

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Gilbert Gutknecht: “I agree with you. If we can get people to just think in those terms, all of sudden they are going to be say, well, let…”

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