Gerald Kleczka: “We have got to take this seriously, do we not? These guys really worry about somehow the money getting away from us…”

“We have got to take this seriously, do we not? These guys really worry about somehow the money getting away from us, that it is somehow flowing out. They have been in control for 5 years. When they came in, they passed a House rule that said that if you are going to do anything with taxes, it took a two-thirds vote, a three-fifths vote or whatever it was. It did not make any difference, because every time it came up, they waived the rule. They waived their own rule. They said it is going to take this much to pass any tax increase. But whenever they wanted to do it, they waived the rule and said we will do it with a majority. They did it so many times in the first session, the first 2 years they were in power, that the next time they came in, they said, well, let us revise the rule and make it really meaningless so that it only affects two or three little parts of the code. That way we can put any tax increase we want over here by a majority rule and in all the rest of the Tax Code.”