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On the recordApril 4, 1995
Thank you very much. If you continued that, last year, May 27 was tax free day. That is more than 42 percent. But we were not through yet supporting Government, because between May 27 and July 10, every person in America who worked spent all of their money, all the money they made went to pay for unfunded Federal mandates, so the cost of total Government last year took all of the income of all working Americans up until July 10. This is a tax burden that we cannot bear. Just a word, in closing, about the capital gains tax. By statute, CBO cannot dynamically score a tax cut. They must statically score it. What that means is all of those capital gains tax reductions will certainly create jobs and increase revenue to the Government. They cannot score it that way, but everyone who studies this knows a capital gains tax cut is a real winner for everyone.
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Roscoe Bartlett
Maryland

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Discussing the tax burden on Americans and the impact of capital gains tax cuts.

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