Mr. Speaker, how can America be bankrupt?

[Rick Rowlands]

"...Mr. Speaker, how can America be bankrupt? There are airport taxes, highway taxes, excise taxes, estate taxes, gas taxes, property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, luxury taxes, nanny taxes, old taxes, new taxes, hidden taxes, inheritance taxes; there is even now a tax called a sin tax. I say to my colleagues, no wonder the American people are taxed off...
...The truth is that Congress as a Congress that taxes everything ultimately will tax freedom and will not balance anything. What is next? A budget tax? Is it any wonder that the American people are saying, kiss my taxes...?
...Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. I yield back the balance of my taxes..."

Jim Traficant

How I miss those days when our congressional representative actually REPRESENTED us, instead of trying to LEAD us!