[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 12, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H13]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1930
                       TAX CREDITS FOR GOLF CARTS

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. My Democrat colleagues, Mr. Speaker, are going 
to solve the health care problems of this country with a 2,100-plus 
page bill, and it's going to simplify the whole procedure and make 
everything better. But let me just give you an example of how things go 
awry.
  We passed an amendment in this body that deals with the Internal 
Revenue Code so people would buy more green cars that weren't going to 
pollute the atmosphere, and bioelectric cars. Well, John Stossel of Fox 
network saw where there were free golf carts and called up, and he 
found out that he could get a golf cart for $6,490, but because 
Congress screwed up with the tax code, he could get all of that money 
back from the taxpayers of this country, in essence, getting that golf 
cart for free.
  That's how government continues to screw up. And if you think that's 
bad, just think what's going to happen if we pass this terrible health 
care bill that's going to raise taxes and ration health care and hurt 
seniors because it's going to cause them to lose a lot of their 
Medicare and Medicare Advantage coverage.
  That's why we shouldn't be rushing to judgment on the health care 
bill. This is the kind of screw-up that should not take place.

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