[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 87 (Thursday, June 13, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                THE IRS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the IRS does not tolerate mistakes. The 
IRS expects taxpayers to have every single receipt. But check this out. 
The GAO did an audit of the IRS, and guess what they found; the IRS 
cannot even tell the difference between income taxes and Social 
Security taxes. Also, the IRS cannot account for $3 billion of 
spending. Also, the IRS says taxpayers owe $130 billion in overdue 
taxes, but the GAO says they could find no proof of that.
  Just think about it. If you could not account for massive spending, 
if your books were in a shambles, what would the IRS do to you, Mr. 
Speaker? You would be guilty, guilty, guilty. They would take you to 
court and you would have to prove yourself innocent.
  Beam me up. No wonder the American people are taxed off. I think 
Congress should take the IRS, handcuff them to a chain-link fence, and 
flog them with their own damn Tax Code.
  That is what the Congress should do. Yield back the balance of the 
taxes.

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