[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 98 (Friday, July 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5134]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, when the IRS takes the taxpayer into 
civil court, the taxpayer is considered guilty, guilty, guilty. 
Unbelievable in America, where you are innocent until proven guilty. 
Not with the IRS. You are guilty, guilty, guilty.
  And the IRS says, even though 97 percent of the American people want 
the burden of proof changes in a civil tax case, they say ``no,'' it 
will cost too much money, Congress.
  Let me submit here, if we applied the IRS thinking to the 
Constitution, the IRS would throw out the Bill of Rights. I think it is 
time to tell the IRS, ``Audit this.'' Cosponsor H.R. 367; take our 
government back. Taxpayers shall be innocent. If the IRS takes them to 
court, they should have the facts to do so.

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