[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 91 (Thursday, July 14, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 14, 1994]
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                      PROTECT THE AMERICAN FAMILY

  (Mr. CALVERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, this week, Americans are celebrating their 
freedom.
  By July 10, the men and women of this country had earned enough for 
the year to pay their State, local and Federal taxes and the costs of 
Government regulations.
  That leaves a little less than half of the year for most families to 
earn enough money to pay for their homes, food, automobiles, maybe a 
family vacation if they are lucky, and possibly some savings for their 
kids' college education.
  Is there any question why our society has so many problems when it 
now takes most families two incomes to make the equivalent after-tax 
income of a family with one income in the 1950's?
  Mr. Speaker, if we really want to solve America's problems, we have 
to enlist the help of America's families.
  And, the only way to enlist their help, is by freeing them from many 
of the burdens that the Government has put on them.
  A great jurist once said, ``the power to tax is the power to 
destroy.''
  If we want to protect the American family, we must cease destroying 
it by taxing it to death.

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