Jack Kingston: “I think we should move for simplification and we should move to insist that IRS employees have a taxpayer friendly…”

“I think we should move for simplification and we should move to insist that IRS employees have a taxpayer friendly attitude. But along with this, whether we go to a flat tax or whether we go to a national sales tax or whatever we do, we still have to keep tax relief in mind. Here are some examples of hidden taxes that we do not know about when we think about it. This is from Americans for Tax Reform, 1997: That a bottle of beer has 43 percent taxes. An airplane ticket, 40 percent tax. A bottle of liquor, 72 percent taxes. Electric bill, 25 percent taxes. A loaf of bread, 31 percent taxes. A car, 45 percent taxes. A hotel bill, 43 percent taxes. A restaurant bill, 27 percent taxes. A packet of cigarettes, 75 percent taxes. The phone bill, which keeps going down and down and down incidentally, 50 percent taxes. Pizza, 38 percent taxes. A set of tires, 36 percent taxes. And a can of soda, that is what my colleagues say up north. We say a can of Coca-Cola where I am from.”