Kenny Hulshof: “for most Americans, the point of least favorable contact between them and Washington occurs today, in fact tonight, and…”

“for most Americans, the point of least favorable contact between them and Washington occurs today, in fact tonight, and probably up until the midnight deadline when Americans will be delivering their tax returns to the local Post Office. It is during this period of time that Americans are painfully reminded that they work too hard for Washington to take so much of their money away. The struggle to not only pay, but to file our taxes is a burden, and not only are our taxes too high, but our tax system is too complex. We have to do better than the current bureaucratic nightmare of 480 IRS tax forms and 17,000 pages of IRS laws and regulations. Mr. Speaker, I have a copy of the Gettysburg Address, 267 words in this document. The Declaration of Independence talked about the principle of no taxation without representation, 1,322 words in this document. And then we come, Mr. Speaker, to our Tax Code. Nearly 1 million words in this Tax Code, not counting the forms that tell us how to deal with this very complex code.”