James Traficant: “I think it is time, though, that while we are talking about the symptoms that we should start addressing the root causes…”

“I think it is time, though, that while we are talking about the symptoms that we should start addressing the root causes and problems. It is time to take a look at the progressive income tax, the burdensome cost of compliance, and the negative economic competition globally that it places us in. We are now beginning to talk about the reasons why we cannot perform many of the deeds our constituents believe we should be addressing, and we will never do it with the complicated Tax Code that we have in place. We reward companies for leaving. We reward imports. We kill exports. And then we talk about trade and then we talk about universal health care. Well, there will be no universal health care, there will be no improvement to the health care system until we change a tax code that rewards competitive imbalance overseas and negates America's opportunity to provide these programs. But it is interesting to see it. It is not an inability. It is not an unwillingness. It is a tax code that simply makes it almost impossible to provide this type of competitive program.”