[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6591]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                            ABOLISH THE IRS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, a government investigation said that the 
IRS gave, quote-unquote, wrong information 50 percent of the time. In 
addition, they say one-third of all calls to the IRS go unanswered.
  Unbelievable. According to my math, the IRS is upside down about 80 
percent of the time. If that is not enough to give your 1040 a hernia, 
the IRS says, give us more money and we will solve our problems. Beam 
me up. The IRS does not need more money. Congress has got to abolish 
the IRS.
  A recent national poll says 70 percent of American taxpayers favor 
the Tauzin-Traficant 15 percent national sales tax. No more forms, no 
more tax on capital gains, savings, investment, education, inheritance. 
Think about it. And the IRS is abolished.
  I yield back those stumbling, fumbling, bumbling, nincompoops at the 
IRS.

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