Louie Gohmert: “The gentleman is correct. And one of the great ironies in this is we have so many friends across the aisle that I know…”

“The gentleman is correct. And one of the great ironies in this is we have so many friends across the aisle that I know are very sincere when they believe with all their hearts they want to help what they call the little guy in America. I am sure they haven't read this bill as thoroughly as I have. But if they will trouble themselves to do so, they will see that under the bill that passed the House that we just had to rush through, if you make just above the poverty line as determined in the bill so you don't get free health insurance, but you don't make enough to buy the policy that the Federal Government mandates, you pay an extra percentage, I believe it is 2 percent on your income tax. We are talking about low middle class, some of those folks working two and three jobs just to keep food on the table. And what is the majority going to do to them? Why, if you can't afford as good a plan as we order you to get, we're going to increase your income tax. You can't afford insurance, and yet you're going to increase the income tax? I just know that there are people that care deeply about the poor, those who are the working poor, doing what they can to struggle to get by. And yet they're going to hammer those very people. It's just ludicrous.”