John Shadegg said "In 1950 the Federal tax bite was $1 out of every $50. So in 1950, when I was a young boy growing up in Arizona, if my dad earned a hundred dollars, the Federal Government got two of those dollars. He had to send $2 in for every $100 he earned. By 1996 that figure had changed rather dramatically. By 1996 it had become not $1 in taxes to the Federal Government out of every $50 earned but $1 in taxes out of every $4 earned. So today, 1996, or at least in 1996 and it has gotten worse since then, if you earned $100, you did not send in $2 you sent in $25, one fourth, to the Federal Government alone. That is a staggering increase in the tax burden on the American people, and I think it explains why it is appropriate to take the vehicle of amending the Constitution and amend it at this particular time." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordApril 21, 1998

In 1950 the Federal tax bite was $1 out of every $50. So in 1950, when I was a young boy growing up in Arizona, if my dad earned a hundred dollars, the Federal Government got two of those dollars. He had to send $2 in for every $100 he earned. By 1996 that figure had changed rather dramatically. By 1996 it had become not $1 in taxes to the Federal Government out of every $50 earned but $1 in taxes out of every $4 earned. So today, 1996, or at least in 1996 and it has gotten worse since then, if you earned $100, you did not send in $2 you sent in $25, one fourth, to the Federal Government alone. That is a staggering increase in the tax burden on the American people, and I think it explains why it is appropriate to take the vehicle of amending the Constitution and amend it at this particular time.

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John Shadegg

Arizona

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the increase in the federal tax burden from 1950 to 1996.

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