NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “There has come to be in this Nation an observance of a day that is not exactly a holiday, though it offers emancipation…”

“There has come to be in this Nation an observance of a day that is not exactly a holiday, though it offers emancipation from the burden of taxation. We call it tax freedom day. Depending on the calculation, whether we are talking exclusively about Federal taxes or if we combine them all, as the gentleman from Colorado pointed out, the cost of all taxation and the hidden costs of regulation, quite often, American citizens work from January 1 through our Independence Day or close to it on an annual basis to free themselves from the yoke of taxation. That is what we are talking about here. These deal with flesh and blood human beings who are facing decisions, who, oft times, in a household, we will see both parents working, not by choice but by necessity, as my colleague, the gentleman from Georgia, points out, because one spouse is working essentially to continue to pay and satisfy the gaping wall of taxation.”