Sam Brownback: “Let me ask people to, if they will, go through this quiz with me of, what is 10 million words long, cost over $150…”

“Let me ask people to, if they will, go through this quiz with me of, what is 10 million words long, cost over $150 billion annually just to comply with, is unintelligible by almost every American, including those with advanced degrees, advanced law degrees, advanced tax degrees, and is the lead way Washington mismanages and micromanages our lives? What one thing is that? It is the Tax Code. The Tax Code is over 10 million words, costs over $150 billion just to comply with before anybody pays a thin dime on this Tax Code. It is unintelligible to people who are tax law experts, and is the lead way that Washington micromanages individual lives across this country. It is no wonder this is an applause line. It is because people despise this code. It has been amended and added to and jiggered with over the years and years to where it just does not make any sense. All the resolution says is that we should sunset the code at the end of the year 2001.”