[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 122 (Wednesday, July 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H7706-H7707]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 IRS AND STRAIGHTENING OUT THE TAX MESS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. The IRS said our goal is to learn how taxpayers cheat 
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we are going to conduct 153,000 additional special audits of American 
taxpayers that will cost them $1.5 billion.
  Check this out. You file a joint return, they demand to see the 
marriage license. You claim children, they demand the birth 
certificates. They demand all household expenses and want a detailed 
list of every single financial transaction. A W-2 form is not enough. 
They want a special affidavit from your boss. After all this, they call 
it voluntary.
  Beam me up.
  The truth is, while Congress keeps turning the other cheek on the 
IRS, the IRS keeps turning the screws on the American people.
  Let us get down to business and straighten this tax mess out.
  

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