[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 42 (Monday, April 18, 1994)]
[Senate]
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[Congressional Record: April 18, 1994]
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INTRODUCTION OF THE TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEE EQUITABLE TREATMENT ACT OF 
                                  1994

  (Mrs. UNSOELD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. UNSOELD. Mr. Speaker, most people think taxation without 
representation ended a few years after the Boston Tea Party. Well, it 
did not.
  Those who work on America's waterways--on the Columbia and 
Mississippi Rivers, on the Great Lakes and along our seaboards--are 
subject to income taxes in States other than the one in which they 
reside. If their work takes them over a State line, they could be a 
victim of unfair taxation.
  What makes this particularly objectionable is that air, rail, and 
road transportation workers are exempted from State income taxes except 
in their home States.
  Today, I am introducing the Transportation Employee Equitable 
Treatment Act of 1994. My bill offers water carriers the same safeguard 
from unfair taxation that other transportation workers already enjoy.
  I urge my colleagues to join in this effort to end taxation without 
representation. It is only fair.

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