[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7814]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



      BASEBALL, NOT TAX INCREASES, SHOULD BE THE AMERICAN PASTIME

  (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, Will Rogers once said that ``Baseball is a 
skilled game. It's America's game, it and high taxes.''
  Well, it seems like he was right. The Clinton-Gore fiscal year 2001 
budget includes 106, that is 106, Mr. Speaker, separate tax increases. 
Taken together, these tax increases total over $180 billion.
  Mr. Speaker, the American pastime should be baseball. Unfortunately, 
the Clinton-Gore administration has a new pastime, increasing the 
crushing tax burden placed upon American taxpayers.
  It seems that the administration wants to keep taking more and more 
money from hard-working Americans to pay for their growing, yet 
inefficient, bureaucracy.
  I encourage my colleagues to reject the Clinton-Gore tax and spend 
plans and to let Americans keep more of their hard-earned money.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the Democrats' anti-American tax increases, 
which only serve to demoralize the American working families spirit.

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