James Traficant: “today I want to talk about taxpayers' rights in America. I have a bill now known as H.R. 3261 and an accompanying…”

“today I want to talk about taxpayers' rights in America. I have a bill now known as H.R. 3261 and an accompanying discharge petition, Petition No. 12, to bring the bill to the floor because it will never come out of the chapter 13 file of the Ways and Means Committee, and I want to explain it. I want to explain it to the Congress so the Members can understand it. No American should fear their government. Every American should pay taxes, and we do pay taxes. But we have a tax system that is so complicated you need a Philadelphia attorney to interpret it and an accountant to fill out your tax forms, and when the IRS comes calling, the IRS is so powerful the tax attorney bails out on you and the accountant seems confused and some tax judge appointed for a lifetime term who does not want to get the IRS mad is going to make a decision on your entire life and future. Now, 95 to 99 percent of these IRS agents are fine people from fine families. They not only mean well, they do a great job, and they are good Americans. But there are a number of IRS agents who have been reckless and overzealous and who have ripped off Americans, mistreated Americans, abused Americans, and Congress has turned its back, its cold back, to much of this abuse. The Traficant bill does several things.…”