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De funded and repealed it. obama care and shutting down the the government is like mixing apples with oranges. they shouldn't have done this. really destructive. if you don't like obama care -- >> there is proof to what he is saying the problem is they waited you out on this one. now it is up and on the web site that doesn't even work one that we paid $400 million for. who knows when it is going to work. >> this is the -- it is only going to get worse from here, judge. >> let's hope it gets better. >> i disagree. it will get a lot better. >> you are in trouble if you don't make this better. co...

De funded and repealed it. obama care and shutting down the the government is like mixing apples with oranges. they shouldn't have done this. really destructive. if you don't like obama care -- >> there is proof to what he is saying the problem is they waited you out on this one. now it is up and on the web site that doesn't even work one that we paid $400 million for. who knows when it is going to work. >> this is the -- it is only going to get worse from here, judge. >> let's hope it gets better. >> i disagree. it will get a lot better. >> you are in trouble if you don't make this better. co...

Do you realize that in this entire time, and even before that, going back to the founding of this nation, not once has a republican controlled house of representatives ever lifted the tax rates on the american citizens. so that means that if we do it here now, this will be unprecedented, raising the federal tax rates on our citizens for the first time in a republican-led house of representatives. congressman fleming is right. that is trivia that is not trivial. there are two reasons that a republican-controlled house of representatives has never raised income tax rates. one, because republic...

Roosevelt. they kept him in the white house because they were intent on winning world war ii and they knew taxes would have to be raised to pay for world war ii. american voters new they couldn't trust a republican house of representatives to get them through anything big, anything historic like world wars. congressman fleming wrote an op ed which he made hits point about this trivia that is not trivial. a republican house of representatives never, ever, ever raising income tax rates. in that piece he quoted abraham lincoln, adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did...

It all your life. congressman fleming forgot to mention something about lincoln and the republican controlled house of representatives during lincoln's presidency. that republican controlled house actually passed our first income tax, which president lincoln signed into law to pay for the civil war. it was a progressive income tax. 3% on annual incomes over $600 and 5% on annual incomes over $10,000. the supreme court ruled those taxes constitutional. decades later in 1895, the supreme court suddenly reversed its self and the earlier decision and declared federal income taxes unconstitutional,...