[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 50 (Thursday, April 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3585]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   THE OPPRESSIVE FEDERAL TAX BURDEN

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, this is the week that we are reminded by the 
April 15 filing deadline just how oppressive the Federal tax burden is 
in this country. But Tax Freedom Day, the day on which the average 
working person gets to stop working for the Government and begin 
working for themselves and their families, does not come until May 7 of 
this year, the latest date ever.
  Working people in this country are being abused and ripped off by our 
Government. If any taxpayer has the audacity to complain about the 
ripoffs, he or she is immediately labeled as a member of the so-called 
greedy rich.
  The Government takes money out of the pockets of working people so it 
can subsidize big corporations to advertise their products overseas. 
You do not like it? I guess you must be a member of the greedy rich. 
The Government takes money out of the pockets of working people to 
subsidize big agribusiness and inflate the cost of sugar, peanuts, and 
cotton. You do not like it? You must be a member of the greedy rich. 
The Government takes money out of the pockets of my people in 
Cincinnati, money that should be going to educate their own kids, and 
the Government uses that money to pay a bunch of bureaucrats here in 
Washington to write manuals about school uniforms. You do not like it? 
I guess you must be a member of the greedy rich. Then the President 
vetoes a bill to give tax relief to working people.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time to cut taxes.

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