[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 109 (Thursday, July 29, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H6589]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         WE NEED TAX REFORM NOW

  (Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, last week I was proud to support 
the largest tax cut in a decade. It is one of the things that I was 
sent here to Congress to do. But as my colleagues know, Mr. Speaker, 
paging through this bill, all 500 pages of it, I was reminded again of 
how tax relief is not enough. Congress must do more. Congress must 
deliver tax reform and do it now.
  Earlier this year I caught another glimpse of that need when a 
constituent of mine sent me some letters, a case that he is working on 
with the IRS. In his letters, he has letters from the IRS promising to 
get back to him on April 19, May 19, June 18, July 16, and most 
recently, August 16.
  It is time to stop this bureaucratic run-around. It is time that we 
scrapped the IRS code and replaced it with a simpler, fairer code and a 
tax code that works for taxpayers, not the other way around.

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