Jeb Hensarling: “I do have some correspondence from some hard working families in the Fifth Congressional District of Texas talking about…”

“I do have some correspondence from some hard working families in the Fifth Congressional District of Texas talking about what we could do to make their housing affordable. And I think it's particularly important when we think about my friends from the other side of the aisle earlier today, literally just a couple of hours ago, passing the single largest tax increase in American history that will amount to roughly $2,700 a year on the families in the Fifth District of Texas. I heard from the Freeman family in Mesquite, and they wrote me, that 'With the extra $2,700 being forced to pay to Washington, my family could lose our home, or we may be forced to give up education because the money won't be there to pay for it. It is really unfair that the low man on the totem pole is always having to give everything up. These extra taxes are not needed.' Well, one way we can make housing affordable is not tax people with homes in the first place.”