[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4378]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MORE TAX RELIEF, LESS GOVERNMENT WASTE

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, one way to think about our tax policy is to 
consider two opposite cases. Under a tax regime that took every penny 
of what you earned, that would certainly be considered tyranny. Under a 
tax regime that allowed you freedom to do whatever you wished to do 
with that money that you earned, that would be considered maximum 
freedom.
  Well, today we can move our tax regime toward the direction of more 
freedom and away from the direction of more tyranny. ``Tyranny'' means 
absence of freedom.
  It means that a truck driver who earns $100 after driving 100 miles 
finds that he is not free to do what he wishes with that money because 
the Government takes a quarter to a half of it. He is taxed on the 
coffee he drinks. He is taxed on the fuel that he burns in his truck. 
He pays taxes on the truck. He pays income taxes. No wonder he feels 
ripped off.
  It is time to move to more freedom and less Government tyranny. It is 
time for more tax relief and less Government waste.

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