Lee Terry: “I accept the challenge from my colleagues from the other side of the aisle to do the right thing, and the right thing is…”

“I accept the challenge from my colleagues from the other side of the aisle to do the right thing, and the right thing is supporting this rule. It is voting to eliminate the marriage tax penalty. I will help the 52,000 married couples in your district and the 58,000 in my district. Americans are overtaxed, and what I hear is we all agree with that. If it walks or you earn it or you buy it, we tax it. And we also tax love. We tax marriage. What type of message does that send to the American public and to our children when we say that this is such a great institution of marriage and something that we strive to support; but we will tax it to the tune of about $1,400 per married couple in the districts of my colleagues and in my district? It is wrong to tax marriage. It is shameful to tax marriage. I grow in frustration as I listen to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle because what I hear the Democrats speak is, let us keep their money, let us keep their money for our spending programs for what we want because we will do it better than they will. Well, I trust people to keep their own money.”