[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5417]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                 A SIMPLER, FAIRER AND FLATTER TAX CODE

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, 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.

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