Sam Gibbons: “just look outside. The cherry blossoms are blooming, the weather is warm here, it is officially spring in our Nation's…”

“just look outside. The cherry blossoms are blooming, the weather is warm here, it is officially spring in our Nation's Capital. It is a glorious time. Or is it? Let me give the American worker's vision of spring. Madam Speaker, can you say ``tax time,'' ``budding IRS audits,'' and ``blossoming tax forms''? In a recent survey, when given the choice between being audited by the IRS or having root canal surgery, more Americans chose root canal surgery. More and more American working men and women are fed up with being bullied by the IRS, a bureaucratic behemoth that tramples the rights of the taxpayers, the very customers the IRS is charged to serve. Americans are completely fed up with paying thousands of dollars and spending countless hours on their tax returns only to incur abuse from the customer-unfriendly and arrogant IRS. Today, it is actually an anomaly to find anyone left in this country who can do his or her taxes. Madam Speaker, our current Tax Code must be abolished and replaced with one that is fair, simple, and honest.”