[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H978]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


     END UNFUNDED MANDATES: STOP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S MEDDLING

  (Mrs. MYRICK asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, as mayor of the booming city of Charlotte, 
NC, I experienced, firsthand, the absurdity of unfunded mandates.
  We were forced to curtail services that our constituents had already 
paid taxes to support, in order to avoid being taxed twice for the same 
things.
  American taxpayers are paying over 50 percent of every dollar they 
earn in taxes.
  They view unfunded Federal mandates as Government inefficiency and 
double taxation.
  We must pass H.R. 5--if for no other reason than because the American 
taxpayers demand it.

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