Asa Hutchinson: “15 minutes ago, 59 Senators voted in favor of what I think all of us support: reforming and restructuring the IRS and…”

“15 minutes ago, 59 Senators voted in favor of what I think all of us support: reforming and restructuring the IRS and protecting the taxpayers to a date certain on sunsetting the Tax Code that no one in this country defends. Do not be fooled. This amendment is a second-degree amendment offered by my dear colleague from North Dakota that would undo much of what we just did. We don't want to undo that. There is nothing in the sense of the Senate that we just adopted that would threaten in any way charitable deductions or home mortgage deductions or any of the other particular aspects of the current code that you may like. It would say that on a date certain we are going to have a new code that is fairer and simpler, more comprehensible to the American people, and that it is a tax code that they deserve. I ask my colleagues to reject this second-degree amendment designed only to undo what we just expressed to the American people--that we believe the IRS is out of control and that we have a code that needs to be simplified and that needs to be made more fair. I ask my colleagues to vote against this amendment.”