Charles Norwood: “our present tax system, and all Americans would agree, is simply too complex. It is too difficult. In addition to that…”

“our present tax system, and all Americans would agree, is simply too complex. It is too difficult. In addition to that, we spend way too many nonproductive hours in this country trying to prepare for taxes, trying to avoid taxes, just being caught up in the whole taxing system that this Congress for years has used to slowly but surely take away individual freedoms. I know, and I have not been here long, but I know my life often is driven by the Tax Code and what is done here in Congress to try to get me to do this or go that way, and to me it simply is taking away freedoms. In addition to that, the system is simply unfair. We have thousands and thousands of dollars tied up in a cash economy, not to speak of the money that the drug dealers do not pay at all in any kinds of taxes. Most Americans say today that they feel they are paying more of their hard-earned money than they really wish to pay for Congress. Yet tonight we sit here and we talk about a great opportunity to change our tax system and go to a very simple system that will increase and improve jobs in this country.”