[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 139 (Wednesday, October 8, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H8635-H8636]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            MORE ON THE IRS

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, the IRS wants to repent. They know they have 
been a little hard on Americans, but they are sorry and they will not 
do it

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anymore. The IRS is starting to begin to sound like campaign reform.
  It starts out, ``We did not do it. Nobody saw us. You cannot prove 
anything. We did not do it.'' Then the truth starts to become apparent 
and the excuses change. ``Ok, we might have had some problems but it 
was not wrong.'' Then it is, ``Yes, we did it but we will not do it 
anymore.''
  That is about where the IRS is today. They have done something wrong. 
Quotas for their IRS agents, singling out individuals like Paula Jones, 
harassing small business men and women, striking fear across America.
  And some people like Martin Grimes of Wichita, an RV salesman, are 
just plain mad. In his last $3,500 check that he got for commission, 
$1,400 of it went directly to the IRS. Mr. Speaker, there are many good 
people who are working at the IRS who have been put in a very bad 
situation by their management. It is time to cut the IRS code and 
flatten the tax.

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