[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11436]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             INSIDIOUS TAX

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, you know, there is an insidious tax out 
there, insidious because we tell the American people that they are not 
going to have to pay it, that we are going to put it on the greedy 
corporations.
  Well, how do you think a corporation stays in business if it doesn't 
pass that on to the people, and they don't realize, they think somebody 
else is paying, and yet it comes right back to their feet?
  Some of us talked to CEOs of industries that moved from here to 
China. Why did you move? I thought maybe the number one answer would be 
because of labor being cheaper. They said the best labor in the world 
is right here in the United States, but corporate taxes are less than 
half of what they are here in the United States, 17 percent there, 35 
percent here.
  Now we are told today by the administration they are going to hire 
hundreds of new IRS agents. Well, as John Fleming said this morning, 
now we know what it means by green jobs. They are going after your 
green.

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