David Thomas: “let me just sort of wind up on our tax thing and say that if you are like me--a weekend from now it will be April 15 and…”

“let me just sort of wind up on our tax thing and say that if you are like me--a weekend from now it will be April 15 and all of us I hope are beginning to think about preparing our tax returns. It is a headache, of course, and so we tend to procrastinate. We are taxed too high, I am sure. And I am sure also that people out there look at Washington and wonder if all that talk about tax relief is just talk. We are here to say that it is not. Tax relief for families in America, for small business, is alive and well and one of the good ideas that is coming out of Washington, I hope soon. By next year, it is our hope that as we begin to think about compiling tax returns we will have accomplished what Americans deserve and expect from Washington as a matter of fact--reforms that let families keep more of their money. Republicans want to lower the tax burden and provide some common sense to the tax system. Currently, according to the Census Bureau, a typical family of four spends more than 3 hours of every 8-hour day working for dollars that are dedicated to Federal, State and local taxes. That is an average of almost 40 percent of income--40 percent of our income to continue to grow a central government. You get big government and you get a bloated bureaucracy. Instead, we ought to be able to use those dollars to increase our businesses, to feed our kids, to send them to school. So we need reform, smart reform, smart tax reform.”