On the recordApril 15, 1999
Today is April 15. Millions of Americans will finish their day today at around midnight, parked in front of a post office someplace, trying to make the final installment on the over $200 billion they will spend this year just complying with the Tax Code. Yes, we have this annual 3 rac{1}{2} months of torment that results in $200 billion worth of our money to comply with a Tax Code that extracts from us more money than what we spend on food, shelter, clothing and transportation combined. That means we will, by midnight tonight, have completed spending the 5.4 billion man-hours this year on complying with the Tax Code, which is more time than this Nation will spend in the production of every car, truck and van produced in the United States. No wonder the American people will go to bed tonight and say, 'Give us some relief.'
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