[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 75 (Thursday, June 11, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4482]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                BILL OF RIGHTS APPLIES TO TAXPAYERS, TOO

  (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 and Treasury Department want to 
soften the language of the burden of proof provision in the IRS reform 
bill. Let us tell it like it is. The administration wants the accused 
taxpayer to remain under the gun.
  Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.
  If ``innocent until proven guilty'' is good enough for the murderers 
of Jasper, Texas, good enough for Charlie Trie in China, good enough 
for Bill Clinton, then innocent until proven guilty is good enough for 
mom and dad, good enough for grandma and grandpa, good enough for he 
and she, you and me, good enough for my colleagues' constituent and for 
my constituent.
  Mr. Speaker, they should keep their hands off that provision. It is 
the only real discipline in the reform bill. The Bill of Rights should 
apply to taxpayers, too. With that, I yield back any common sense left 
and advise the administration to come clean.

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