[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 21 (Wednesday, March 2, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 2, 1994]
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         CHANGING THE TAX CODE COULD CREATE JOBS IN OUR COUNTRY

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, experts say the economy is great and 
getting better, but something does not add up. Hamilton Standard of 
Connecticut is cutting 500 jobs. Dawson Products of North Carolina is 
cutting 2,000 jobs. AT&T has announced they will cut 15,000 jobs over 
the next 2 years.
  Now to complicate this, my colleagues, personal income of Americans 
dropped three-tenths of 1 percent last quarter, and personal spending 
increased one-half of 1 percent last quarter.
  Congress does not need to tamper with the Constitution. Congress has 
got to change the tax laws that are killing small business, killing 
investment and killing jobs.
  My colleagues, it is the Tax Code, not the Constitution. Congress 
should keep their hands out of the Constitution and change the Tax 
Code. It might create some jobs in this country.

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