[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 53 (Thursday, April 15, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2583]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT GONE WILD

  (Mr. BONNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, spring break just ended, but if you thought 
Washington tax-and-spenders were taking a vacation from their money-
grabbing ways, you were badly mistaken. Every day it seems another 
headline is proclaiming the administration's latest plans to 
dramatically increase your taxes in order to pay for its trillion-
dollar spending binge.
  Now, there are some close to the President who are throwing out the 
possibility that after the election they are going to throw out a value 
added tax not in place of our current tax system, but in addition to 
it. Mr. Speaker, this isn't the latest video of spring breakers going 
wild, this is a real life example of government gone wild.
  The President, backed by the largest Democrat majorities in Congress 
since the 1970s, has doubled the Federal deficit in just 1 year, and 
has forced down our throat a government takeover of health care that, 
mark my words, the American people don't want and we cannot afford. 
Ironically, hardworking taxpayers will have until midnight tonight to 
file their tax returns. They have worked 4 long months just to pay 
their Federal tax bill. And soon they will be working even longer to 
feed this addiction. This has got to end.

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