[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 62 (Tuesday, May 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H4439-H4440]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                   TURN THE CLINTON TAX TREND AROUND

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, I guess the President just simply loves 
higher taxes. In 1993 he passed the highest tax increase in American 
history: an increase in the tax gas, an increase in Social Security 
taxes on seniors, an increase in taxes on small business. Now our Tax 
Freedom Day which we have heard so much about this morning keeps 
falling later and later every year under the Clinton watch.
  In 1992, under George Bush, it was May 2, but next year, Clinton, May 
3. Next year May 5; next year, May 6; and now it is May 7, the latest 
the tax freedom day has ever been.
  We can turn the tide. We can and we should cut taxes. Let us cut them 
on average working families: taxes on gas, if my colleagues will, but 
taxes also on seniors, taxes on our small businesses, taxes on farmers, 
and taxes on capital gains. Let us shorten the Government's long reach 
into our pockets and cut taxes right across the board.
  Let us turn this trend around. Maybe next year people will be able to 
work less for the Government and more for themselves and their 
families.

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