Pete Hoekstra: “Going back to the Tale of Two Visions, we all know how complex our Tax Code is. It is so complex that the IRS has spent…”

“Going back to the Tale of Two Visions, we all know how complex our Tax Code is. It is so complex that the IRS has spent in the neighborhood of $8 billion trying to design and automate and computerize the system. They now acknowledge that $4 billion of this will never be able to be used. When you talk about a two-wage-earner family, that is 2 million families where the second wage earner paid $2,000 to the Federal Government and did not get one dime of value. Two million families where the second wage earner paid $2,000 in taxes and the Government threw it away, because our Tax Code is too complex. That is why 2 million men or women went to work for a year and got absolutely no value. That is waste, that is wrong, and that is what is killing America's families today.”