NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I would suggest to the President that it is not the American people who are selfish. Instead, it is a government that…”

“I would suggest to the President that it is not the American people who are selfish. Instead, it is a government that takes more and more and more of what people earn and then unfairly takes it away from them. I would point out the experience of a 93-year-old American who suffered from Alzheimer's disease who sent a check to the Internal Revenue Service for $7,000. Even the IRS admitted that was a mistake. But when it came time to give that money back, the Internal Revenue Service said, no, the statute of limitations had run out. So the IRS was protected with its own selfishness. Today, Mr. Speaker, in our bill to reform the Internal Revenue Service, we take away that statute of limitations. For that senior citizen's family, including an Arizona couple, we will try to make it right. No, it is not the people who are selfish; it is a brutal, repressive tax regime.”