On the recordJuly 12, 1995
As you said, with local, State and Federal taxes, the average family is paying 40 percent of their income into taxes. And that can increase, with the hidden taxes, up to around 50 percent or more. Thirty-eight percent of our gross domestic product is consumed by government. And the one common theme that I heard all through my campaign and through my visits back home to the district has always been, government is too big. The American people feel the burden of too much government, too many taxes. And if we would have seen the Clinton health care plan go through last year, it would have pushed us over 50 percent of our gross domestic product that would be used by the Government. That would have put us into the socialism category. We have to start moving in the other direction. We have to reduce the taxes, give the families their money back. So many times money that comes into the Federal Treasury is talked about as the Government's money.
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