[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 63 (Wednesday, May 8, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4534]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            TAX FREEDOM DAY

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, yesterday was tax freedom day, May 7--
the latest it has ever been.
  That means American working families are working longer for the 
Federal Government than ever before.
  American working families pay almost 40 percent of their total income 
to the Government in taxes.
  American working families are giving more to the Government, leaving 
less for their everyday needs.
  Less for groceries, less for gas, less for whatever we may desire.
  American working families have watched their tax freedom day fall 
later each year under the Clinton watch.
  That is not rhetoric. Those are straight-up facts. The Republican-
passed family tax cut would have turned this trend around. A repeal in 
the gas tax would turn this trend around. A capital gains tax cut would 
turn this trend around.
  American working families are taxed too much. Let us turn this 
Clinton tax trend around. Let us cut taxes. Let us get the Government 
out of America's pocket.

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