[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9144]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    TAKES ONE-THIRD OF THE YEAR TO PICK UP THE TAB FOR OUR BLOATED 
                         GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, Katherin Whitehorn once said, ``The easiest 
way for our children to learn about money is for you to have none.'' 
Well, if Katherin Whitehorn is right, then the first 130 days of this 
year America's children have earned their doctorate on money because 
during this time every penny earned by the hard-working men and women 
of this Nation has been taken away by local, State and Federal 
Government taxation. It did not go to pay for kids' education, it did 
not go to pay for the home mortgage, and it did not go to pay medical 
expenses. Instead, it all went to expanding government bureaucracies.
  Mr. Speaker, fully one-third of this year's effort of these hard-
working Americans was spent just to pick up the tab of this bloated 
government bureaucracy. Decades of unchecked growth and deficit 
spending by the tax and spenders has left hard-working men and women of 
this country with this crushing tax burden.
  The vast majority of Americans do not object to paying their fair 
share of taxes, but they do object to the suffocating level of taxation 
that exists today.
  Mr. Speaker, for our children's sake let us allow hard-working 
families to keep more of their money, not less. I urge all of my 
colleagues to support meaningful tax reform this year.

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