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W. Todd Akin: we all have to struggle from time to time with the bad practice of being late. We don't like to be late, and the reason…

On the recordDecember 5, 2007
we all have to struggle from time to time with the bad practice of being late. We don't like to be late, and the reason we don't is, of course, when we're late, we inconvenience somebody. If you're late to the car pool, a couple of people have to sit there and wait and you've got to choke your breakfast down a little bit quicker so you don't inconvenience someone. But you know the Democrats have been very late. But when the Congress is late, it is really a big inconvenience, because the Democrats knew that they had to pass the AMT patch some months ago and they didn't do it. And so what does that mean? It means not just a few people in the car pool. What it means is 32 million Americans will not get their tax refund; $87 billion will be late to 32 million Americans because the Democrats are late in dealing with the AMT tax patch. They tried to put it together with a $3.5 trillion tax increase, the mother of all tax increases. Of course that didn't work, and now we're late.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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Discussing the delay in passing the AMT tax patch and its impact on American taxpayers.

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