[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 64 (Thursday, May 9, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E753-E754]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      AMERICA DESERVES TAX RELIEF

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                            HON. RON PACKARD

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 9, 1996

  Mr. PACKARD. Mr. Speaker, this week, America's families finally began 
to work to provide for their own needs. For the first 128 days of this 
year, America's families worked to provide for the government.
  Since President Clinton took office in 1993, his tax and spend 
policies have forced taxpayers to work another 6 days to pay their 
taxes--that is a week's paycheck that they cannot use for their 
families. The average American will spend more time working to pay his 
tax bill than he will spend working to provide for food, clothing, and 
shelter combined. Under the Clinton administration, the rate of growth 
of real median family income has been zero percent. America's families 
deserve better.
  My Republican colleagues and I believe American taxpayers are taxed 
too much. If the President and his colleagues are serious about 
providing tax relief for hard-working families, they will take a first 
step and join us in our effort to repeal the 4.3-cent gas tax hike. 
Already, the President is threatening to veto such a measure--just like 
he vetoed tax relief for American families when he took his veto pen to 
the Republican balanced budget bill.
  I guess the President and his colleagues just like taxes. They have 
not made an honest

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effort yet, to bring taxes to a reasonable level and give families back 
their own money. In fact, just 2 days ago, a colleague of the President 
brought the other body to a standstill during an attempt to repeal the 
Clinton tax, saying, ``We are simply going to shut this place down.'' 
The President and his colleagues will stop at nothing to keep America's 
tax dollars.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for Americans to earn more and keep more of 
what they earn. I urge the President and his friends to join my 
Republican colleagues and I and give American families the tax relief 
they deserve.

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