Sam Gibbons: “Will Rogers once said ``baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game, it, and high taxes.'' Well, it seems that Will…”

“Will Rogers once said ``baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game, it, and high taxes.'' Well, it seems that Will Rogers was right. Currently, Americans are taxed at the highest levels since World War II. During a time of projected record surpluses, there is absolutely no reason, no justification for these high taxes. American families deserve a tax break, and according to recent polls, nearly two out of three Americans want, need and deserve a tax break, but the critics of the tax plan want to keep taking more and more money from hard-working Americans just to pay for their growing, yet inefficient, bureaucracy. Mr. Speaker, spring is just around the spring, marking the beginning of the baseball season and, unfortunately, the tax season as well. Let us hit a home run for Americans. Let us pass meaning tax relief and help them pay the mortgage, buy a computer, or simply go to school. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the criticisms of the tax relief which only serve to strike out for America's families trying to realize the American dream.”