Gilbert Gutknecht: “The IRS does not use that. Frankly, in all of this discussion, and the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Neumann] and I were…”

“The IRS does not use that. Frankly, in all of this discussion, and the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Neumann] and I were talking, earlier, frankly, what we need to do is get, and I think the Senate Finance Committee already has an electronic work sheet on a web site and we hope to have it on a web site very, very soon, and we will have work sheets available, and perhaps by the next time we have a special order we can have a chart made up so average American families can calculate for themselves; do not take my word for it, do not take the Treasury Department's word for it, calculate it for yourself. I will give a classic example. The same story. I came home a couple of weeks ago, there was a family going to a garage sale, they had three kids. That is $1,500 more they would have to spend. Those kids, when they go to college, it can be up to $1,500. Do not take our word for it. We ought to have a work sheet, whether it is on a web site so people who have access could do that, or an actual written work sheet so people can calculate their own tax. It is not what it might be worth to somebody else, but what is it worth to the average family in the gentleman's district? To the average family in my district it is worth over $1,000 a year.”