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Gilbert Gutknecht: “So if I buy a $100,000 automobile, I pay a lot more taxes than if I buy a $20,000 automobile. That is the way the whole…”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2004
So if I buy a $100,000 automobile, I pay a lot more taxes than if I buy a $20,000 automobile. That is the way the whole system works. Mr. Speaker, we have to do a better job of explaining this to everybody. Because I think, in the end, and I want to thank both my colleagues, particularly the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. King), because he has been helpful to me in beginning to understand. Let me close for my part of this with two very important points made by one of my favorite people from the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill observed this about the American people: First of all, he said Americans always do the right thing, once we have exhausted every other possibility. And I think we have really reached a point, when you look at the Tax Code, that we have exhausted every other possibility. And it really is time for us to do the right thing.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota
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Discussing the complexities of the tax system and the need for reform.

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