Political Quotes

“our current tax code is unfair. It taxes savings. It taxes marriage. It even taxes death. It is virtually incomprehensible, even to tax lawyers and to accountants. In fact it is even four times the length of the Bible. This week we have an opportunity to take a major step towards reforming our tax system. The House will consider H.R. 1041, legislation to sunset the Tax Code. This legislation will encourage Congress to create a simpler and fairer and more reasonable tax system for Americans. It gives us a deadline to do it. Once this bill becomes law, the current Tax Code would sunset on December 31, 2004, and Congress must then implement a new Tax Code or reauthorize the current one we have by July 4, 2005. Our tax laws are complicated, unfair, and unreasonable. Let us work together to sunset our abominable Tax Code and replace it with something simpler and fairer and flatter.”