It is almost unbelievable. If we could get Americans to just think about this, because we all pay the taxes. I mean Paul Harvey often says that businesses do not pay taxes; people do. If you could get people to just think about this, that the system we have today is so incredibly inefficient that we all pay a lot more just to collect the revenues that the Federal Government needs. Now, we all agree that the Federal Government, whether it is for national security or domestic security or for roads or for prisons and all of the other things we need, we need some revenue, right?
Gilbert Gutknecht: “It is almost unbelievable. If we could get Americans to just think about this, because we all pay the taxes. I mean Paul…”
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Discussing the inefficiencies of the tax system and the need for government revenue.
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