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James Traficant: “I will vote today for President Bush's tax cut. But cutting taxes, income taxes, is not enough. It is time to replace…”

On the recordMarch 8, 2001
I will vote today for President Bush's tax cut. But cutting taxes, income taxes, is not enough. It is time to replace the income tax with a national retail sales tax. Think about it. Our income Tax Code rewards dependency, subsidizes illegitimacy, penalizes work and achievement. Beam me up. It is time to let freedom truly ring in America. And I ask my colleagues, who can truly be free in America if the government controls our income and our labor? America should control their own financial destiny. I yield back the fact that the income tax levied on all citizens is a Communist idea first proposed by Karl Marx and now practiced in the United States of America.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Discussing tax policy and advocating for a national retail sales tax.

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