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On the recordSeptember 23, 2004
this tax policy, H.R. 25, the fair tax is about freedom. There is so much freedom that we do not realize we have lost over the last 91 or 92 years that we have had this Tax Code because we get used to the IRS coming into our homes and into our offices, auditing us. I was shut down once for 4 days while the IRS was going through all my paperwork, and the frustration of having them dig through my paperwork, pass Monday morning quarterback decisions upon the ethical decisions that I made day by day by day, and to know that my business decisions were contingent upon the tax implications, I had kind of gotten immune to that a little bit. You get conditioned to it, and you forget that your mind can be freed of that, and it can be focused on productivity, how do you build a product or provide a service for the most competitive price and the highest quality to turn the best profit that you can. That is why you go to work every day. It has turned us into a Nation of tax preparers and tax avoiders.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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Discussing the implications of tax policy and the IRS on personal and business freedom.

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