Louie Gohmert: “So perhaps that was the thinking, that this is somebody who would be an expert in not paying taxes. Maybe that's who we…”

“So perhaps that was the thinking, that this is somebody who would be an expert in not paying taxes. Maybe that's who we want in charge of the tax entity, the IRS. It's an interesting point. It still cuts to my core to think that the land of the free and the home of the brave is being converted into a land of the unfree where liberties are taken away because people have decided that the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Chairman get to pick and choose what entities or what banks get to stand when the smoke clears. I mean, what happened to competition? Why not let people play and play fairly and just enforce fair rules? That's what is needed here. We don't need the Federal Government saying what companies they're going to support and will never let fail, because as soon as the Federal Government says they're not going to ever let this bank or this company fail, then that's going to be the last one standing, because it knows it can operate in the red and that its competition cannot do that. At the end of the day, that government-supported entity or bank will end up being the one left. That is outrageous. It is un-American. Anybody who would stand for that proposition that we're not going to let these companies compete fairly, that we're going to come in and pick the winners and losers, needs to start wearing a name tag that reads, ``King George III wannabe.'' I want to pick the winners and losers. I want to tell you who prevails and who doesn't.”