Kevin Brady: “as we can see, Washington hates to change, and this Congress and this President is intent on making Washington change…”

“as we can see, Washington hates to change, and this Congress and this President is intent on making Washington change the way it works. Look at its impact on the American people today. Tax Freedom Day just occurred May 3. That means for most of our families, we have worked from New Year's Day to May 3, just recently, just to pay our State and local and Federal taxes. That is the highest, that is the longest date ever; and that means that for most families, because we are not working for ourselves until the fifth month, we pay more in taxes than if we put our house payments, all of our groceries and our clothing together. We pay more than that in taxes. No wonder it is hard for families to make ends meet. We wonder, how much of the money we send here actually gets to the people who really need it. Washington recently has funded, and we have read about it, we funded $1 million that the Park Service used to build a two-hole outhouse. We spend $5 billion a year to help salmon swim upstream. In fact, we spend so much we could buy each of those fish a first-class ticket on a plane, fly them to the top of the river and save money doing it. Not only that, we paid one group $350,000 a year to kill the same salmon. We waste dollars up here day and night. This President is intent on Washington not going on a spending spree, on tax relief that grows as we pay off the debt and as our surplus grows, tax relief grows.”