Joel Hefley: “here is a quiz. What has over 3,500 pages, is practically impossible to understand and is so complicated that rich…”

“here is a quiz. What has over 3,500 pages, is practically impossible to understand and is so complicated that rich people, poor people, middle class people all think it is an unfair monstrosity? Of course it is the Federal Tax Code, all 3,500 pages of it. The Tax Code is a monument to the power of special interests, a symbol of big government and liberalism run amok, a scourge to all who believe in fairness, openness and common sense. I am convinced that just reforming the Tax Code is not going to work. No, Mr. Speaker, the Tax Code will have to go because the Tax Code is fundamentally corrupt. It is not an honest system when people trying to do the best they possibly can to figure out how much they owe make innocent mistakes and then get hammered by the IRS. A simple tax, maybe a sales tax, maybe a flat tax, with a low interest rate is the only way to have fairness, transparency and honesty in the way the Federal Government collects revenue. Let us get serious. Let us replace, not just reform, the 3,500 pages of the Tax Code.”