[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 62 (Tuesday, May 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4441]
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                      MAY 7, 1996, TAX FREEDOM DAY

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I offer congratulations to you and 
congratulations to every hard-working American taxpayer. Or should I 
say offer condolences? Because at long last, today, May 7, is tax 
freedom day.
  We have heard a lot of talk, a lot of playground taunts about the gas 
tax and repealing the Clinton gas tax. That would be but a modest first 
step, a reasonable first step.
  Let me put it in perspective, Mr. Speaker. One of my constituents 
stopped by my Washington office this morning and told me in the wake of 
Bill Clinton's tax increase, the largest in American history, including 
retroactive taxes, her tax bill increased 213 percent.
  That is compassion? That is common sense?
  Mr. Speaker, in the words of my colleague from Ohio, beam me up.

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