[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 40 (Thursday, April 14, 1994)]
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                        TAX BURDEN ON AMERICANS

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, My friend, Lois Van Ryn Stock, turned 40 
on Monday, and in so many ways Lois epitomizes the best of baby 
boomers. She is bright, intelligent, ambitious, attractive, and of high 
moral fiber. Yet she also symbolizes the tragedy of baby boomers, 
because Monday also marked her 20th year in the workplace, 20 years of 
sacrifice and saving and sweating, only to know that tomorrow when she 
pays her taxes, and 42 percent of her total income goes to taxes, she 
will have to work until June until she reaches tax freedom day, when 
she and her husband, Bill, can start working for themselves. And she 
knows that most of the taxes they pay will be squandered by politicians 
and bureaucrats.
  Mr. Speaker, Lois and her middle-class counterparts need some relief. 
When the middle class quits working, bye-bye bureaucracy, bye-bye 
Congress, bye-bye America, because we cannot make it without the middle 
class.
  Since the President will not honor his pledge for a middle-class tax 
cut, let us do it as Members of Congress. Mr. Speaker, Lois needs some 
relief.

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