That's simply hogwash from my point of view.

It's a disingenuous claim that's used as justification for pursuing historic expansion of federal spending.

Taking taxes to zero is not going to get us more revenue.

By all means we should debate whether some of these tax expenditures, such as the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction ought to exist.

My Democrat colleagues don't seem to care about the cost to small business.

I come away feeling that there ought to be a pox in both our houses, both Republican and Democrat houses.

Those I would add, are almost certainly unconstitutional themselves.

The idea that somehow we should reduce the number of audits, and the number of IRS agents, and that's going to make us more money is simple, clear, and wrong.

I would also strongly believe that putting in place systems makes a lot of sense.

When we're talking about some social issues, they can become highly divisive, and we end up not doing as well as we could have.

It's a Democrat, excuse me demagogue approach, which is I think designed to say hey, we want to get people to vote for us because we're going to promise them they can cheat in their taxes because there won't be any audits.

If this isn't evidence of an overwhelmingly progressive federal tax system currently in place, I don't know what would be.

I think it's nuts to somehow think that getting rid of auditors is going to save us money.

The IRS doesn't deserve the presumption it's going to do the right thing all the time.

Instead of throwing billions of dollars at the IRS enforcement, our constituents would much better be served by a customer service focus.

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I urge the House Natural Resources Committee to swiftly pass H.R. 5831.