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James Traficant: The tax code accounts for 24 percent of the cost of an American-made automobile. Now, think about it. You buy a car made…

On the recordMarch 8, 2000
The tax code accounts for 24 percent of the cost of an American-made automobile. Now, think about it. You buy a car made in America for $20,000 and $5,000 of it goes to satisfy the tax code. Beam me up. I say, let us throw the tax code out; let us abolish the IRS, pass a flat 15 percent savings tax. No more tax on education, savings, investment, corporations, capital gains. And one last thing. No more forms, no more IRS. Congress, let us handcuff the IRS to a chain link fence and flog them with the income tax code. I yield back the millions of audits and gouging of the American taxpayers.

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Proposing a radical overhaul of the tax system and the abolition of the IRS.

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