[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 24 (Tuesday, March 10, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H918]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  NO FEAR OF GOVERNMENT FOR AMERICANS

  (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, the IRS says, do not change the law. 
Taxpayers should remain guilty in a civil tax case. Unbelievable.
  Let me remind Members of the recent testimony of an IRS employee 
before the other body about IRS reform. She demanded that she be behind 
a screen to hide her identity and she said she must have a voice 
scrambler to disguise her voice. I want to quote what she said, Mr. 
Speaker. ``I am afraid. I am afraid of retaliation by the Internal 
Revenue Service'' that she worked for.
  Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. No American should fear their government, 
and let me say this to Congress. There can be no true substantive 
reform of the Internal Revenue Service without shifting the burden of 
proof to the government in a civil tax case. We know it, the IRS knows 
it, I know it, and by God, the American people know it, and the 
American people demand it.

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