[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 44 (Tuesday, April 15, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1459]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 WORKING AMERICANS WAGE RESTORATION ACT

  (Mr. NETHERCUTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. NETHERCUTT. Mr. Speaker, today taxpayers throughout America will 
do their civic duty by paying their Federal income taxes. The typical 
American family will pay more in all taxes than it spends on food, 
clothing and shelter combined.
  Our colleague in the Senate, Senator John Ashcroft, and I believe 
this is too much, that working Americans know better how to spend their 
money than the Government does. So I am pleased today, with Senator 
Ashcroft in the Senate, to introduce the Working Americans Wage 
Restoration Act.
  This bill will allow American workers to deduct their share of 
Federal payroll taxes. These payroll taxes are inherently unfair 
because workers are taxed twice in the same income. They are taxed once 
as a portion of gross income for Federal income purposes and for a 
second time for the contribution to the Social Security trust fund.
  By allowing workers to deduct on their income taxes their share of 
Social Security contributions, the Working Americans Wage Restoration 
Act will eliminate this double taxation and allow workers to keep more 
of the money they earn.
  So I urge my colleagues to join with us in this bill in giving fair 
tax relief to the American workers.

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