[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 30, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4132]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                IT IS TIME TO REPEAL REGRESSIVE GAS TAX

  (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, I once again return to the point I have been 
making since I got here, and that is that working families in this 
country are taxed far, far too much. Working families are being ripped 
off by the Federal Government and by the special interests that demand 
more and more money and higher and higher taxes.
  So I am glad to hear the rumors that the President may at least be 
willing to roll back the ill-conceived gas tax that he imposed a couple 
of years back. That gas tax was part of the biggest tax increase in 
history, a tax increase that even the President later admitted was a 
mistake.
  The President and the old Congress thought that higher taxes would 
fuel the economy, but a lot of working families are just about running 
on empty. Taxes are too high. Let us quit siphoning an extra 50, or 60 
or 70 cents out of the pockets of American citizens each time they fill 
up their gas tanks. Let us agree right now, in a bipartisan way, to 
repeal this ridiculous regressive gas tax and ensure Americans get more 
mileage out of their own paychecks. It is time to cut taxes and get the 
lead out.

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