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Paul Coverdell: if he were still alive, President Roosevelt would say April 15 is ``a day that will live in infamy.'' We have all come…

On the recordApril 15, 1996
if he were still alive, President Roosevelt would say April 15 is ``a day that will live in infamy.'' We have all come to know this very special day as one of great dread in our country, as we come to grips with the enormous burden every American family, every Georgia family, every citizen comes face to face with--the direct burden of Government and the enormous consumption of the wages of labor that are consumed by the U.S. Government and government in general. Depending on what you count, today Americans work from January 1 until about June 31 for the Government before they are able to keep the first dime for themselves, their families, their educations, their dreams. I think Thomas Jefferson must surely have many times rolled in his grave because he could never, ever have anticipated that there would come a time that nearly half the resources of those who labor for it are removed from those families and those individuals and sent to some government to redetermine what ought to be done with the wages of the person who earned it.
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Paul Coverdell
Georgia

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Discussing the tax burden on American families on Tax Day.

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