[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 30 (Thursday, March 8, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H743]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TIME FOR A NATIONAL SALES TAX

  (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, I will vote today for President Bush's 
tax cut. But cutting taxes, income taxes, is not enough. It is time to 
replace the income tax with a national retail sales tax.
  Think about it. Our income Tax Code rewards dependency, subsidizes 
illegitimacy, penalizes work and achievement. Beam me up. It is time to 
let freedom truly ring in America. And I ask my colleagues, who can 
truly be free in America if the government controls our income and our 
labor? America should control their own financial destiny.
  I yield back the fact that the income tax levied on all citizens is a 
Communist idea first proposed by Karl Marx and now practiced in the 
United States of America.

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