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William Tauzin: “I think we have concluded and we should all conclude that the American income tax system is far more complicated than we…”

On the recordApril 15, 1997
I think we have concluded and we should all conclude that the American income tax system is far more complicated than we could understand. Even Albert Einstein could not understand it. But it has reached a point in this historical setting where it has been amended and tinkered with so many times that it gets more complicated every time we see it; that it has become so incomprehensible that Americans tonight, I am sure, are struggling to fill out all those forms, as we struggle every year; that April 15 has become a day of tyranny in this country, a day in which we indeed wanted to celebrate the birth of our Nation's freedom in Boston Harbor by declaring that today we begin the process of educating Americans and the Members of this body on why the income tax is terrible for this country, and why we ought to seriously consider repealing it, removing it, and substituting an alternative in its place.
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William Tauzin
Republican · Louisiana
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Discussing the complexities and challenges of the American income tax system.

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