[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6570]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    WORKING AMERICANS KNOW BETTER HOW TO SPEND THEIR MONEY THAN THE 
                            GOVERNMENT DOES

  (Mr. NETHERCUTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NETHERCUTT. Madam Speaker, today most taxpayers throughout 
America will do their civic duty and file their Federal income taxes. 
For Washington State residents, the average total tax burden will rise 
from $10,307 in 1997 to $10,634, making Washington the State with the 
tenth highest per capita tax burden in our country.
  I believe this is too much, that working Americans know better how to 
spend their money than the government does. So I am pleased today, with 
Senator John Ashcroft and the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Wamp) to 
introduce the Working Americans Wage Restoration Act.

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  This bill will allow American workers to deduct their share of 
Federal payroll taxes. It is unfair to workers that these payroll taxes 
are taxed twice in the same income. They are taxed once as a portion of 
gross income for Federal income tax purposes, and for the second time 
for the payroll tax contribution to the social security trust fund.
  By allowing workers to deduct in their income taxes their share of 
social security contributions, the Working Families Wage Restoration 
Act will eliminate this double taxation, and allow workers to keep more 
of the money they earn.

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