[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5631-5632]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT GONE WILD

  (Mr. BONNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, spring break just ended, but if you thought 
Washington tax-and-spenders were taking a vacation from their money-
grabbing ways, you were badly mistaken. Every day it seems another 
headline is proclaiming the administration's latest plans to 
dramatically increase your taxes in order to pay for its trillion-
dollar spending binge.
  Now, there are some close to the President who are throwing out the 
possibility that after the election they are going to throw out a value 
added tax not in place of our current tax system, but in addition to 
it. Mr. Speaker, this isn't the latest video of spring breakers going 
wild, this is a real life example of government gone wild.
  The President, backed by the largest Democrat majorities in Congress 
since the 1970s, has doubled the Federal deficit in just 1 year, and 
has forced down our throat a government takeover of health care that, 
mark my words, the

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American people don't want and we cannot afford. Ironically, 
hardworking taxpayers will have until midnight tonight to file their 
tax returns. They have worked 4 long months just to pay their Federal 
tax bill. And soon they will be working even longer to feed this 
addiction. This has got to end.

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