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Asa Hutchinson: This isn't about applause lines and not about flat taxes or flatter. It is about whether or not we are going to vote to…

On the recordApril 1, 1998
This isn't about applause lines and not about flat taxes or flatter. It is about whether or not we are going to vote to defend the status quo, whether we are going to vote to defend an incomprehensible monstrosity called the IRS Tax Code. I want to begin my remarks by just quoting the words of James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 62 when he said: It will be of little avail to the people. . .if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. I think if he were writing today, he would be talking about the IRS Tax Code being incomprehensible.
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Asa Hutchinson
Arkansas

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Discussing the complexities of the IRS Tax Code during a debate on tax reform.

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