Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, there is perhaps a fundamental, philosophic difference between the gentleman and myself. Taxes that are taken from people are just that: it is money that is taken from people under penalty of law. These are not expenditures of the government that we are talking about. We are talking about taking people's money from them, sometimes forcibly. And in this case, in order to fund what? Well, I don't know how many people here remember when the Affordable Care Act passed late that night in March of 2010. I don't know how many people were paying attention to section 9013 of the law, for which they either voted ``yea'' or ``nay.'' But let me just remind people what section 9013 said. Mr. Speaker, this is one of the underlying problems that the Affordable Care Act has had since the git-go. You ask yourself: Why is a law that is giving people stuff so marginally unpopular? And why has that unpopularity persisted over all of this time? Well, one of the reasons for that is the coercive nature of the Affordable Care Act. I mean, the fact that there is an individual mandate: You have to buy it, or we are going to penalize you through the Tax Code. But one of the other reasons was the very duplicitous way in which this bill was passed: We are going to give you stuff today, and then we are going to figure out kind of how to pay for it later.…”