[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 35 (Thursday, March 15, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H944]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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             TAX RELIEF IS A HOME RUN FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES

  (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, Will Rogers once said ``baseball is a 
skilled game. It's America's game, it, and high taxes.''
  Well, it seems that Will Rogers was right.
  Currently, Americans are taxed at the highest levels since World War 
II.
  During a time of projected record surpluses, there is absolutely no 
reason, no justification for these high taxes.
  American families deserve a tax break, and according to recent polls, 
nearly two out of three Americans want, need and deserve a tax break, 
but the critics of the tax plan want to keep taking more and more money 
from hard-working Americans just to pay for their growing, yet 
inefficient, bureaucracy.
  Mr. Speaker, spring is just around the spring, marking the beginning 
of the baseball season and, unfortunately, the tax season as well.
  Let us hit a home run for Americans. Let us pass meaning tax relief 
and help them pay the mortgage, buy a computer, or simply go to school.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the criticisms of the tax relief which only 
serve to strike out for America's families trying to realize the 
American dream.

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