[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 29 (Tuesday, February 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1699]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                IN AMERICA THE PEOPLE RULE, NOT THE IRS

  (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, after hard knocks on their door, a 
Chicago woman really smelled the coffee. Three IRS agents demanded--
yes, demanded to see her daughter. She said, ``My daughter is not 
home.''
  They demanded to see her daughter. She was frightened, she called her 
husband, her husband called the accountant, and the accountant called 
the IRS. They said she did not report her interest on her savings. The 
IRS said it was a gift. They said, ``We don't believe you. Prove it.'' 
They said, ``I want to see your daughter.''
  Their daughter was in second grade at the local elementary school.
  The IRS demanded: They did not ask. They said, ``Prove it. We don't 
believe you.'' They demanded.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask the Members to cosponsor H.R. 390. The taxpayer is 
innocent until proven guilty, and it is time that Congress started 
making some demands on the IRS. The people are boss in America, not the 
IRS.


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