[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 44 (Tuesday, April 15, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1460]
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                         STOP THE TAX RIP-OFFS

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, it is a sad fact that simply to mention 
today's date is to utter a phrase that most Americans find repugnant: 
April 15, tax day. The words just sort of lie there, cold and hard and 
ugly. We take a perfectly good month like April and we spoil it with 
this tax ritual, because the amount of money that the Federal 
Government takes away from working families is a scandal, the amount of 
money that the Federal Government spends and wastes is a scandal, and 
the arrogant, bureaucratic system by which the Federal Government takes 
that money is a scandal, too.
  We have to change the system, Mr. Speaker. We have to get back to the 
idea that the bureaucrats work for the taxpayer, not vice versa. The 
presumption ought to be in favor of the taxpayer, not in favor of the 
Government. The presumption ought to be against Government boondoggles, 
like the National Sheep Industry Improvement Council. Not a single 
sheep is being improved but the taxpayer is being fleeced.
  We need to end corporate welfare, we need to stop the government rip-
offs, and we need to give the American people tax relief. Let us cut 
taxes now.

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