Scott Garrett: “despite the hopes of the other side of the aisle, the constituents in my district are pretty smart people. When they…”

“despite the hopes of the other side of the aisle, the constituents in my district are pretty smart people. When they were paying a little over $2 a gallon for gasoline a year or so ago and now they're paying upwards of $3 per gallon, they know that's an increase out of their pocket. Likewise, when it comes to taxes, when they see that they are paying so much for their taxes now on the Federal level now, and after this package goes through on the other side of the aisle, they will be paying upwards to $3,000 or more. They know, they're smart enough to realize that's a tax increase as well. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have to look to outside nonpartisan groups they call them, really nonpartisan liberal think tanks I think is the best term, for those think tanks to say that these are not tax increases when they really are. When your taxes go up from this year to the next year to the next year, that is a tax increase. They talk about the budget planning process and say, don't worry, it only comes at the end of the budget. Well, you know, regular families plan during the entire budget. If you have a weekly budget for your food allotment, you want to make sure you have food at the end of the week. If you're doing a monthly budget, you plan the entire month. If you have a yearly budget or a 5-year budget as this is, you do it in the entire 5 years. And under the Democrats' budget, your taxes during the course of that time will go up.”