[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 27, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H1125-H1126]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PASS FLAT SALES TAX AND ABOLISH IRS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, in 1998, Congress reformed the IRS and 
included two of my provisions. The first transferred the burden of 
proof from the taxpayer to the IRS; the second required judicial 
consent before the IRS could seize our property, and the results are 
now staggering. Property seizures dropped from 10,037 to 161 in the 
entire country.
  The IRS had a license to steal, and they were stealing 10,000 
properties a year. And if that is not enough to tax our gallbladders, 
the IRS is now complaining the new law is too tough. Beam me up here. 
It is time to tell these crybaby IRS thieves that we are going to pass 
a 15 percent flat sales tax and abolish them altogether.
  I yield back what should be the next endangered species in the United 
States of America: The Internal Rectal Service.

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