Scott Garrett: “earlier we heard from the other side of the aisle that President Kennedy once said: ``To govern is to choose.'' Well, so…”

“earlier we heard from the other side of the aisle that President Kennedy once said: ``To govern is to choose.'' Well, so it is, and we have seen how the Democrat majority of this House has decided to choose when it comes to the issue of tax and spend. They always choose tax. In the very opening comments from the Democrat chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, he said that one of the options they could have considered was cutting spending in the United States Government for once, but they immediately dismissed that, saying that that was simply politically undoable for the Democrat Caucus. So instead what they do they do? They raise taxes. Their proposal, they say, is to tax the rich. But really what they are saying is try to rob Peter to pay Paul and then go and try to convince Paul that Peter is paying and convince Peter that Paul is paying. But the American taxpayer knows that all of middle-class America will be paying for this tax increase. This tax increase, a $76 billion tax increase over 10 years, follows a litany of other tax increases. I was on the floor last night and I went through about a dozen Democrat bills which, combined, totaled about $110 billion in tax increases on top of the largest tax increase in their budget. Vote ``no'' on this.”