Thomas R. Suozzi: “So we have to recognize that the country is not the same all over. If you make $150,000 in your household, you are in…”

“So we have to recognize that the country is not the same all over. If you make $150,000 in your household, you are in the top 20 percent of the income earners of the country. However, if you make $150,000 in your district or my district, you are not a rich person. If you make $150,000 in Oklahoma or in Iowa or North Dakota, you may be a wealthy person. So we have to recognize these regional differences. People say: Well, why should we be subsidizing what you are doing? And the gentleman points out so clearly in what he just spoke about that we are, in fact, in our States, subsidizing the rest of the country. We are net donors and they are net takers.”