Bob Inglis: “I rise in strong support of the so-called Kasich substitute. I would point out to my colleagues here in this House that…”

“I rise in strong support of the so-called Kasich substitute. I would point out to my colleagues here in this House that contrary to the previous Speaker, there is not calm in the country. In fact, I believe we are on the verge of a revolution. The revolution will not start, though, with any guns. The revolution will start with two implements: one, a calculator, and two, a paycheck stub. Mr. Chairman, I would encourage the people of America to take out their little calculator and to take out their paycheck stub, and to calculate the percentage of taxes they are paying out of what they make to this bloated Federal Government, to their large State government, and then keep going, add up the sales taxes that they pay at the grocery store, add the taxes they pay as a result of the Clinton budget last time at the gas pump; add it all up. The national average is, you have 40 cents out of every dollar we make, we pay in taxes. Forty cents out of every dollar we make, State and local taxes, is the national average. In some places it is up to 50 cents. Mr. Chairman, we have people on the other side who say, 'My goodness, we cannot cut anything. My goodness, we cannot give money back to the American family.' The previous speaker is actually depriving the people of his district of $51.9 million of tax relief.”