[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 97 (Thursday, June 27, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H6979-H6980]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    THE AMERICAN WORKERS TAX BURDEN

  (Mr. ROYCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Speaker, next week on July 4, the American people will 
celebrate 220 years of independence from Great Britain, but they will 
also celebrate the fact that their liberation from $3.3 trillion in 
total costs and regulations that it takes 6 months to pay. It was not 
always so.
  If we went back to the 1960's, we would see that the Federal tax rate 
then was 12 to 13 percent. It has doubled since then to 25 percent. 
When we add the regulations cost, when we add the State cost, it brings 
it up to almost 50 percent.
  Now that is the cost of increased Government spending. That is why 
some of us fight to reduce wasteful Government spending on this floor. 
Let us reduce the burdens which we have

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placed upon the American worker. Let us reform the overgrown Government 
agencies and roll back senseless and burdensome regulations. Let us 
grant the American worker the independence that he or she deserves from 
the Federal Government.

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