[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 52 (Wednesday, May 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 4, 1994]
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 IT'S TAX FREEDOM DAY, BUT OUR CITIZENS ARE STILL PAYING FOR GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, today is Tax Freedom Day, and 
all the days since January 1 until now Americans have been working just 
to pay Federal, State and local taxes. But if our citizens think that 
they can start working for themselves tomorrow, they can forget it 
because between now and July 13, which is Government Freedom Day, our 
citizens will be working to pay for the cost of Government regulations 
and unfunded Federal mandates.
  In 1913 Tax Freedom Day was January 30.

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  Mr. Speaker, our citizens all across the country are demanding that 
we begin a march back to those halcyon days, and we will start that 
process today with the A-to-Z proposal. I encourage my colleagues on 
both sides of the aisle to sign the discharge petition so we can debate 
this issue. I am sure that all Americans will applaud us for it.

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