[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 24 (Tuesday, March 10, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H919]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TIME FOR TAX REFORM

  (Mr. JONES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, today the average American will work 2 hours 
and 49 minutes of an 8-hour work day just to pay his or her taxes. Many 
of them will go home not to spend quality time with their families, but 
to tackle a complicated maze of IRS rules and forms simply so they can 
figure out how much of their hard-earned money they will send to 
Washington this year.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not what America should be about. The tax burden 
of this country is far too high, both in the size of the checks that 
taxpayers must write to the IRS each year and in the amount of time and 
money: 5 billion hours and $225 billion annually they must spend 
complying with the lengthy and complicated Tax Code.

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  The American people want, need and deserve a fairer, simpler tax 
system. I hope my colleagues in this Congress will join a bipartisan 
effort to provide them with the very critical tax relief they deserve.

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