Steve Largent: “It is that time of year. The trees are budding, flowers are blooming, and tax accountants and attorneys are sharpening…”

“It is that time of year. The trees are budding, flowers are blooming, and tax accountants and attorneys are sharpening their pencils. That is right. It is the tax preparation season. April 15 is just around the corner. Taxpayers everywhere are pulling their hair out trying to decipher this year's Tax Code. They are not alone. Even the paid professional tax preparers do not understand the Tax Code, and neither do the 110,000 employees at the Internal Revenue Service who are paid $9.8 billion to implement the Tax Code. What is Washington's response? At best they talk a good game. They say we should scrap the Code, use it as an applause line at political functions, and get a standing ovation when they say it. It is springtime. It is time for new beginnings. Let us begin by implementing a new Tax Code. Let us say adios to the Tax Code in 2001 and join 190 Members of Congress who have signed on to pass H.R. 3097, the Tax Code Termination Act.”