[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 45 (Wednesday, April 16, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1546]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       MULTIMILLION-WORD TAX CODE

  (Mr. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, only in Washington do 
people systematically create a mess and then stand up before America 
and declare, I am just so proud of this mess that I have created.
  That is right, Mr. Speaker, I am talking about the politicians who 
created our multimillion-word Tax Code. It just saps 40 percent of the 
family budget so that you cannot afford your own healthcare or any 
other necessity.
  It is truly a bizarre Washington ritual where the politicians come to 
town year after year, make the Tax Code more and more complicated, more 
and more illogical and then leave town and tell their constituents how 
proud they are of their work in Washington, DC.
  For 40 years my liberal friends on the other side of the aisle were 
in power. In 1995, that 40-year attack on freedom came to an end, but 
their legacy to the American people is a Tax Code of one gigantic, 
multivolume embarrassment, an embarrassment of which they are 
nonetheless enormously proud.
  I, on the other hand, want no part of that legacy, Mr. Speaker. I, on 
the other hand, can only look to our tax system as a cruel joke that is 
the enemy of common sense.

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