[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 60 (Wednesday, May 13, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3117]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TAX FREEDOM DAY IN NEVADA

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, this morning, when Nevadans head off to 
work, they are going to have a little extra spring in their step and 
little lighter burden on their shoulders, because this fine morning, 
not only is the sun starting to peak through the clouds, but working 
men and women in Nevada are finally going to work for themselves, their 
families, their futures, and not the government.
  That is right, Mr. Speaker, today, May 13th, is Tax Freedom Day in 
Nevada. During 1998, so far Nevadans have worked 91 days, almost 3 
months, to pay their Federal taxes, and an additional 41 days to pay 
their State and local taxes.
  The fact that these hard working men and women in this country have 
to spend nearly one-half of the year working to pay the government 
ought to concern, if not outrage, all of us in this room. Surely, not 
even the most liberal of my colleagues on the other aisle can defend 
this tax level.
  I call on my colleagues to join me in instituting common sense tax 
relief in this country. Let us begin by eliminating the marriage tax 
and the death tax as well. Let us start moving the process back, not 
forward.

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