Vito Fossella: “I think the question that we need to ask ourselves and the question that I think we owe to be answered by the American…”

“I think the question that we need to ask ourselves and the question that I think we owe to be answered by the American people is, does anybody in this Nation truly understand the Tax Code? I have yet to find anybody who truly understands the Tax Code. So then we have to ask a follow-up question: Is that right? Is it right for the American people not to understand their own Tax Code; that the taxi driver or the small business owner or the nurse or the teacher that when they get their tax bills at the end of the year and they are trembling when they have to go see an accountant because they have no idea what they are doing; is that right? Should the Congress be sending out a signal to the American people, here is the Tax Code and we do not care if they do not understand it? Is it not taken for granted the genius of the American people, the spirit of the American people, the productivity of the American people, the creativity of the American people, and then we give them this Tax Code?”