[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22512]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    PROGRESSIVE INCOME TAX SOCIALISM

  (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, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive 
income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, 
Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a 
progressive income tax.
  Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism. Now, if that is not enough 
to tax our history, 1999, United States of America, progressive income 
tax socialism. Stone cold socialism.
  I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a 
national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my 
colleagues.
  I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of 
our current system.




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