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Asa Hutchinson: yesterday, while millions of American households across the country were struggling to understand which of the 480…

On the recordDecember 1, 1997
yesterday, while millions of American households across the country were struggling to understand which of the 480 separate IRS tax forms applied to them, while they were trudging along, trying to read through the accompanying 280 supplemental explanatory IRS pamphlets, while their tax accountants and tax attorneys worked hard to keep them abreast of the more than 800,000 words which make up this country's Tax Code, and while families nervously anticipated the impending IRS deadline of April 15, which is now less than 6 weeks away, President Clinton had the audacity to call my efforts to sunset this country's incomprehensible maze that we call a Tax Code in the year 2001--irresponsible
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Asa Hutchinson
Arkansas
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congress.gov
Dec 1, 1997

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