Dick Chrysler: “128 days out of the year, 17 weeks out of 52, are spent working to pay our taxes. In other words, for 128 days the…”

“128 days out of the year, 17 weeks out of 52, are spent working to pay our taxes. In other words, for 128 days the average American works for government. Something is wrong with this picture. Mr. Speaker, the American family is being pressured from all sides today. It does not help that government takes 128 days of his or her labor. And, thanks to Bill Clinton, Americans now work an extra 6 days to pay their taxes. That is another pay gone to finance the Government's spending by the Washington bureaucrats. Mr. Speaker, we need less government, lower taxes, we need to let people keep more of what they earn and save, and we need to let people make their own decisions about how they spend their money, not government. As to the remarks of the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey] about education, we had 760 educational programs in 39 different departments in this Federal Government. We said 170 of them were duplicative of other ones. That is not cutting education. This is cutting duplication.”