[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 56 (Thursday, May 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2934]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            TAX FREEDOM DAY

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, this weekend, Americans will celebrate 
Mother's Day and pay tribute to mothers all across our Nation for the 
care, love, and strength that they provide for their families and 
children.
  How distressing it is that this day should fall on the same date that 
hard-working Americans celebrate another day, Tax Freedom Day, the day 
we finally quit working to pay the burden of government and start 
working for the benefit of our own families.
  National Tax Freedom Day is, in fact, May 10 this year, the latest 
date it has ever been. Every year, Tax Freedom Day moves later and 
later. Soon we are going to be celebrating Tax Freedom Day on Father's 
Day at the rate we are going.
  Most Americans want us to move Tax Freedom Day back to the tax 
payment day, which is April 15, as we well know. Those two dates have 
not coincided for over 30 years.
  Despite last year's tax relief provided by this Republican-led 
Congress, the average family still pays 38 percent of their income to 
taxes, and that is way too high, as we all know. So let us make last 
year's tax cut the first step, but not the last step, toward giving 
Americans control over their own incomes, and commit to stopping the 
Tax Freedom Day creep.
  Meanwhile, happy Mother's Day.

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