[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 117 (Thursday, August 18, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 18, 1994]
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                        THE IRS WILL TAKE IT ALL

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the IRS recently threatened to seize a 
Colorado sprinkler company for underpayment of withholding taxes. The 
underpayment: One copper coin, one cent, one red penny. This is no 
joke. Unbelievable.
  The IRS said they are going to rain all over the Rainmaker Sprinkler 
Co. Think about it: What is next? They are going to tell us where to 
eat? What to eat? Where to sleep? Where to go to the john?
  We have an IRS agency out of control, ripping us off, and I want to 
give credit today to Congressman Scott McInnis. He not only signed 
Discharge Petition No. 12 that would change the burden of proof in a 
tax case, he sent a little note with a penny and said, ``Straighten 
this thing out.''
  Ladies and gentlemen, it has gotten so bad that they will just come 
in without proof one day and take your wife, take your kids, your dog, 
your goldfish, and Congress is allowing this to go on. When for one 
penny the IRS can seize property or threaten to, the Congress should 
pay some attention.

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