Mr. Speaker, that is called robbing the poor to pay the government. That is what that is all about. How anyone lives on $11,600 is beyond me. All of us in the House have constituents who are in the same boat.
I have had constituents who are pensioners who come to me with their income tax forms and say “Look at this. I am making $20,000 a year and the government is making me pay thousands of dollars of income tax. How can I and my wife survive on this?”
That is not a question for me to answer. That is a question on the conscience of the government to answer because Reformers would not tolerate that for a minute.