The federal tax code is meant to raise sufficient money to do the limited things that the Founding Fathers thought that a Federal Government should do.
Jim Risch: “The federal tax code is meant to raise sufficient money to do the limited things that the Founding Fathers thought that…”
On the recordJuly 16, 2013
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Risch criticizes the tax code's shift from its original purpose to social engineering.
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