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James Traficant: “Our Tax Code penalizes achievement and rewards dependence. It subsidizes illegitimacy. It kills investment. It kills…”

On the recordApril 15, 1999
Our Tax Code penalizes achievement and rewards dependence. It subsidizes illegitimacy. It kills investment. It kills jobs. It destroys our exports and sales and subsidizes our imports. Beam me up, Madam Speaker. In a nutshell, our Tax Code sucks. It is time to abolish it and throw the IRS out with it and give serious consideration to a national retail sales tax. It is time to tell the IRS, tax this. I yield back the $850 charge of compliance for every man, woman and child in America for this complex Tax Code we have in place.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Criticizing the U.S. Tax Code and advocating for its abolition during a floor speech.

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