[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 153 (Wednesday, November 5, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H9999]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       PRESIDENT CALLS VIRGINIANS SELFISH FOR SEEKING LOWER TAXES

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I noted with interest and I must admit, 
Mr. Speaker, a trace of disbelief the headline in yesterday's 
Washington Times: Clinton Labels Tax Cut Selfish.

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  Mr. Speaker, I would suggest to the President that it is not the 
American people who are selfish. Instead, it is a government that takes 
more and more and more of what people earn and then unfairly takes it 
away from them.
  I would point out the experience of a 93-year-old American who 
suffered from Alzheimer's disease who sent a check to the Internal 
Revenue Service for $7,000. Even the IRS admitted that was a mistake. 
But when it came time to give that money back, the Internal Revenue 
Service said, no, the statute of limitations had run out. So the IRS 
was protected with its own selfishness.
  Today, Mr. Speaker, in our bill to reform the Internal Revenue 
Service, we take away that statute of limitations. For that senior 
citizen's family, including an Arizona couple, we will try to make it 
right. No, it is not the people who are selfish; it is a brutal, 
repressive tax regime.

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