Gilbert Gutknecht: “it is an incredible tragedy in America today that the IRS knows more about one's personal finances many times than one's…”

“it is an incredible tragedy in America today that the IRS knows more about one's personal finances many times than one's spouse. Which leads me to the next point. I hope we have made some progress in terms of simplifying this Tax Code. But it is very small progress. I would hope that in the next Congress, with perhaps a different leadership at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, we can get very serious about simplifying and making this Tax Code much fairer. There are several things we could do. But it really is amazing that Americans even allow this system to survive. When we think about what Americans did back at the beginning of this country, we started throwing tea in Boston harbor because the king wanted to put a penny per pound tax on tea. I mean that outraged the American people. Today, we allow an IRS to continue to look into every nook and cranny of our personal lives, and if we make a mistake, even to the tune of $1, it puts a tremendous burden on the American people, and it is simply wrong.”