Joe Pitts: “I have a simple question to ask. To whom does the surplus belong? Anyone listening to the other side would conclude that…”

“I have a simple question to ask. To whom does the surplus belong? Anyone listening to the other side would conclude that the surplus belongs to the government. In speech after speech, I have heard implied that politicians in Washington have the first claim to the money as if it is their money. The surplus belongs to the taxpayers. It is their money. The surplus is in fact nothing more than tax overpayment made by taxpayers. Anyone who has ever looked at Washington for any length of time knows that one of only two things will happen to the surplus. We can give it back to the people who earned it or Washington will find a way to spend it. I think Jesse ``The Body'' Ventura was right. The government should apologize and then refund the money back to the people to whom it belongs in the first place, the taxpayers of America.”