Virginia Foxx: “Tomorrow is the day that Americans are required to pay their taxes. It is the last possible day in this year that they…”

“Tomorrow is the day that Americans are required to pay their taxes. It is the last possible day in this year that they can do that. We call it 'tax day.' It is normally on April 15th, but because of the calendar and because today is a holiday in the District of Columbia, it has been delayed. I want to say something about the fact that our taxes are something that people feel obliged to pay the Federal Government and to State and local governments too, but many people do it grudgingly. We do it grudgingly because we feel concern about the way too many of our tax dollars are being spent. However, this year, taxpayers are paying less than they have paid before as a result of the tax cuts that have occurred in 2001 and 2003, tax cuts that were pushed through under a Republican Congress and asked for by a Republican President. So Republicans believe that the government that governs least governs best, and that is the philosophy that I have.”