[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 43 (Wednesday, April 13, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H1902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 END THE TYRANNY OF ANXIETY OF APRIL 15

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PENCE. Madam Speaker, it is April 13; and to my fellow American 
procrastinators I say, 2 days and counting, until tax day, April 15.
  In 2003 alone, Americans spent $203 billion just preparing our taxes, 
let alone paying for them. Madam Speaker, 1 billion hours in annual 
paperwork has been added to tax preparation in just the last 10 years.
  Think of these comparisons: in 2003, your 1040 form is 73 lines long. 
In 1935 it was 34 lines long. In 2003, your 1040 booklet was 131 pages. 
When it was created in 1935, it was 2 pages.
  Are we having fun yet? I say no.
  Today we will scrap the death tax, and well we should. But while we 
are at it, let this majority rededicate itself to scrap the code, to 
create a new flatter and fairer and simpler system that ends the 
tyranny of April 15 on the American people, a tyranny of anxiety.

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