[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6569]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    IT IS TIME TO ABOLISH OUR TAX CODE AND THROW THE IRS OUT WITH IT

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, our Tax Code penalizes achievement and 
rewards dependence. It subsidizes illegitimacy. It kills investment. It 
kills jobs. It destroys our exports and sales and subsidizes our 
imports.
  Beam me up, Madam Speaker. In a nutshell, our Tax Code sucks. It is 
time to abolish it and throw the IRS out with it and give serious 
consideration to a national retail sales tax. It is time to tell the 
IRS, tax this.
  I yield back the $850 charge of compliance for every man, woman and 
child in America for this complex Tax Code we have in place.

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