[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 91 (Thursday, July 14, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 14, 1994]
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           TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT AN OVERSIZED GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, the majority leader just outlined for us 
the plan for the largest tax increase in American history. We all 
wonder why Americans had to work until July 10, Sunday of this past 
week, to pay for government, because that was the cost of government 
day. The average American had to work until July 10 to pay for all of 
the cost of government at every level. Fifty-three percent of the 
Nation's income is going to pay for government, and yet President 
Clinton and the majority leader and other liberal Democrats wanted to 
impose government-run health care.
  Mr. Speaker, part of that plan requires an employer mandate, which is 
nothing more than a payroll tax. If that plan goes into effect, next 
year the cost of government day will not be on July 10, it will be on 
August 15, August 15. Americans will have to work all year until then 
to pay for the cost of government.
  Mr. Speaker, we all know government is too big and spends too much. 
It is time to do something about it.

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