Richard K. Armey: “Mr. Speaker, every day of their life, moms and dads all over this great Nation get up and go to work. They go to work…”

“Mr. Speaker, every day of their life, moms and dads all over this great Nation get up and go to work. They go to work and they earn a living. They take care of their family. They try to build a home. They try to educate their children. They pay their bills faithfully, decent, honest, hard working American people. From every dime's worth of income they earn during the year, they pay their taxes faithfully. When there is something else, they try to save, and maybe they tried to build, and maybe they try to accumulate something. As they work all their life for their children's well-being, for their comfort, for their safety, their security, their health, they also believe that, if we are really successful, mom, we do a good job, we keep the family farm together, we build this small business into something, create a few jobs for some of our friends and neighbors, when it is all over, we might be able to leave it to our children. They are not working that hard. Paying their taxes, paying their bills, saving, being double taxed on what little bit they can save, watching their little business grow because they are looking forward to the day when they die and leave it to the government. Yet, this government, with its tax code which is rife with silliness, disincentive, hurt and harm for every American for every time they ever do the right thing stands uncorrected.”