Dan Kelly Government Quotations

The actual idea took about five seconds. It took me maybe an hour to think it through and understand the impact, but the actual idea just popped in my head, ... I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Hurricane Katrina Emergency Tax Act of 2005 ... I was interested to see what the federal government was doing to help the victims of the hurricanes.

The impact if this did become law will be felt nationwide. First it will help generate more donations to the relief effort, ... It will give all taxpayers who take the standard deduction a break for their donations. Finally, it will reduce the burden on the government to fund the relief efforts.

They were both impressed with the idea, and especially how this idea will shift a portion of the economic burden of this relief effort off the federal government and spread it out across the taxpayers without actually raising taxes,