Political Quotes

“As a cosponsor of H.R. 3916, the Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act, I am proud to not only support it, but also be a cosponsor. It adds $6 billion annually to our bills and about $2.00 a month to our constituents' phone bills. While this tax was created to fund the Spanish-American War and has been reinstituted during different conflicts, telephones were a luxury. Well, that is not the case anymore. In fact, it has long since not been a luxury. So this regressive tax should be repealed. This is a broad tax cut that I think a lot of us can support, and that is why you have a broad number of Members that are cosponsoring it. It covers everyone, but particularly it covers senior citizens in my own district who can see when their bill comes in after this is effective, their Federal tax will be reduced. I do share with my colleague from Wisconsin the concern about whether their regular phone bill will be increased, but hopefully they will deal with their State legislature and their regulation on that.”