Deborah Pryce: “Mr. Speaker, with all due respect to the last few speakers as the…”

On the recordApril 15, 1997

Mr. Speaker, with all due respect to the last few speakers as the hard-working American taxpayers labor about a third of the year just to pay their taxes, they stay up late, rolling up their sleeves, burning the midnight oil over their tax returns, or worse, paying accountants and lawyers thousands and thousands of dollars for the very privilege of paying their taxes, it is our duty, it is our responsibility, to stop, to put on the brakes of this annual travesty. This is the perfect day to provide this legislation.

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Deborah Pryce

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Addressing the burden of taxes on American taxpayers.

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