[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 67 (Friday, May 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3757]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 WORKING U.S. CITIZENS SUFFER FROM DEMORALIZING AND CRUSHING TAX BURDEN

  (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, incredible as it may sound, for the first 
132 working days of this year, every penny earned by the hard-working 
men and women of Nevada did not go to pay for their kids' education, 
did not go to pay for their home mortgage, did not go to pay their 
medical insurance or expenses. Instead, it all went to this expanding 
government bureaucracy.
  Fully one-third of the year's effort of these hard-working Americans 
has been spent just to pick up the tab for the bloated government 
bureaucracy. Decades of unchecked growth and deficit spending by the 
liberal tax and spenders has left the hard-working men and women of 
this country with this demoralizing and crushing tax burden.
  The vast majority of Americans do not object to paying their fair 
share of taxes, but they do object to the suffocating level of taxation 
that exists under this administration.
  Arthur Godfrey put it best when he said, ``I'm proud to be paying 
taxes in the United States. The only thing is, I could be just as proud 
for half the money.''
  Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support the Republican 
proposal to eliminate the marriage tax penalty. Let us allow hard-
working families to keep more, not less, of their money.

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