[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6616]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    TAX FREEDOM DAY COMES WAY TOO LATE FOR WORKING AMERICAN FAMILIES

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, today is Tax Freedom Day. Today is the day 
that working Americans for the first time this year can stop working 
for the government and begin working for themselves and for their own 
families. May 3, 5 months into the year, 124 days working for the 
government. Incredible.
  Mr. Speaker, we have an obligation to those working American families 
to trim the size of big government and trim the size of their tax 
bills. Rather than picking up the tab for a host of government programs 
that simply refuse to die because the President and the Congress refuse 
to kill them, taxpayers should be able to spend their hard-earned money 
on their own needs. Rather than supporting billion-dollar corporate 
welfare programs, taxpayers should be allowed to provide for the 
welfare of their own families.
  Mr. Speaker, we can help. We can move Tax Freedom Day to an earlier 
slot on the calendar by cutting big government down to size and 
providing American people with the healthy tax cut that they richly 
deserve. And next year, we can celebrate Tax Freedom Day a little 
earlier.

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