[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 62 (Tuesday, May 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4442]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            TAX FREEDOM DAY

  (Mr. RIGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RIGGS. Mr. Speaker, all the attacks in the world on Mr. Starr are 
not going to distract attention from the fact that 16 indictments and 9 
convictions later, the Whitewater investigation proceeds.
  Mr. Speaker, today is tax freedom day. It is the day Americans stop 
working for the Government and start working for themselves. Tax 
freedom day is now 128 days into the year. That's up 6 days since Bill 
Clinton took over the White House.
  Six days is over a week's worth of work. That's another paycheck the 
American people will not see because Bill Clinton raised taxes in 1993.
  Today, the average family pays almost 40 percent of their income in 
taxes. That is wrong. A 40-percent tax rate is simply too much for a 
struggling family.
  Bill Clinton may be riding high in the polls today. But that does not 
change the reality that he is a big government tax and spend liberal 
who gave Americans the largest tax increase in history and who fought 
against and vetoed any tax relief for America's families.
  Happy tax freedom day, Mr. Speaker.

                          ____________________