[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6123]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  RESTORING DEDUCTIBILITY OF SALES TAX FOR TENNESSEE PROVES WORTHWHILE

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, today I was coming back to D.C. reading 
the Nashville Tennessean, the local news section, and my attention was 
drawn to a headline here: ``State's March Sales Tax Revenue up $14.8 
Million Over Estimates.''
  Mr. Speaker, there is a reason that the State sales tax revenues are 
up so much in the State of Tennessee, and it has to do with actions 
that this body took last year. Last year, we voted to restore the 
deductibility of sales tax to those of us from nonState income tax 
States. Tennessee, Texas, Washington State, several States are affected 
by this provision. It proves the point, you want more of something, you 
lower the taxes. Things that are taxed less are going to flourish.
  I would like to say thank you to our Speaker, the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Hastert); to our leader, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
DeLay); and to our whip, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), for 
their leadership and their support in restoring the deductibility of 
sales tax for my State, Tennessee, and the other States that fund their 
State governments by State sales tax.

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