[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 16 (Tuesday, February 6, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H170]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             TAX RELIEF NOW

  (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, last month Federal Reserve Chairman Alan 
Greenspan echoed what this Republican-led Congress has supported for 
years, that we should pay down our national debt and grant Americans 
tax relief, instead of increasing the size of the Federal Government.
  According to the Census Bureau, Mr. Speaker, the average household 
pays almost $9,500 in Federal income taxes this year, and that is twice 
what the average family paid in 1985. But we do not only pay Federal 
income taxes, we pay taxes when we use the phone, buy clothing, pump 
gas, sell stock, sleep at a motel, ride on an airplane, get married, or 
even when we die.
  It is time for hard-working Americans to get a break from all of 
these taxes. Now is the time. We can enact meaningful tax relief while 
still remaining fiscally responsible and paying off our national debt.
  There is no excuse, Mr. Speaker, not to give the Americans what they 
want, what they need, and what they deserve, a tax break.

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