Richard K. Armey: “Mr. Speaker, we have heard a great deal today about people who are willing to work with us on the Tax Code and to fix…”

“Mr. Speaker, we have heard a great deal today about people who are willing to work with us on the Tax Code and to fix the horrifying inequities that we find in the Tax Code that are so bothersome to the American people. I have been gratified to hear these expressions of commitment from both sides of the aisle, and I have been particularly gratified to hear the number of Democrats who have spoken so eloquently today for the need to avoid discriminatory taxation on the Internet. I must say, I certainly agree with them on that; and I am looking forward, then, to counting on their vote when we bring a moratorium on discriminatory taxation on the Internet to the floor later this year. But for the business at hand today, Mr. Speaker, we are again demonstrating to the American people that we are on the side of Mr. and Mrs. America. When they tell us that the extraordinary taxation and punitive provisions called the earnings limitation on senior citizens is unfair because it denies them the benefits they paid in all their lives, we agree. We passed the law, and the President signed it just last week.”