NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “this evening we have heard my colleagues talk about the tax trap, the tax trap which has enmeshed so many Americans who…”

“this evening we have heard my colleagues talk about the tax trap, the tax trap which has enmeshed so many Americans who fall victim to this simple observation which history and simple mathematics would bear out: The harder you work and the more you succeed, the more Washington and the Washington bureaucracy takes from you. I realize this is deadly serious business, Mr. Speaker, because we are talking about real people with real concerns and the genuine future of this Nation at stake. And not to make light of this, but to bear it out in one of its forms, I am reminded of the Walt Disney production, ``The Parent Trap,'' because the tax trap for our citizens is all too often a parent trap. This is what I mean. So often now, across the width and breadth of this country parents, both parents, in a household are working oft-times not because of choice but because of trying to move their family beyond this tax trap. Quite often a spouse goes to work simply to try and satisfy the tax bite; simply to try to lift the family out of this hole created by more and more taxation, and the incessant need of this bureaucracy to ask for more and more money from average Americans.”