Political Quotes

“Twenty-five years ago, I got audited one too many times. That one too many times caused me to go back to work fuming after all the time I had lost and money that I had lost, and I still to this day believe I filed everything exactly correctly and honestly and legally. But I went back to work and started with the premise I want to eliminate the Internal Revenue Service and I want to eliminate the Internal Revenue Code. I did not think too much about how to do it, I just wanted to get rid of it. So I looked at how do we replace that, how do we replace the revenue stream? And there is only one way, and that is a fair tax, a national consumption tax on sales and service. The simplicity of it is impressive. And after weeks and weeks of working this through, answering these devil's advocate questions that I asked of myself, and trying to find people around my neighborhood in 1980 that could answer this, and my colleagues that could answer this, and no one had been thinking about it.”