[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4490]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                             TAX COUNTDOWN

  (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, the countdown is on. The tax clock is 
ticking. The day the American workers dread the most, tax day, is only 
10 days away.
  April 15 looms on the calendar each year as an ominous reminder of 
the crushing burden of the current Federal Tax Code. While the IRS 
often stands behind closed doors, American working men and women 
struggle to keep pace with an out-of-control Federal agency.
  Over the next 10 days, taxpayers across this country will spend 
sleepless nights and countless hours in an attempt to figure out 
exactly the correct amount of their hard-earned money and how much they 
must send to the Federal Government.
  Heaven forbid the amount will be off even by a single cent and cause 
the taxpayers the horror of facing the unbridled wrath of an audit by 
the Internal Revenue Service.
  Mr. Speaker, we must act now to enact comprehensive tax reform, 
giving our working families a fairer, flatter, and simpler tax without 
an IRS.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back our antiquated and oppressive tax system 
that continues to burden too many hard-working Americans every year.

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