[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27265]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          TAXPAYER CHOICE ACT

  (Mr. McHENRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, I am confident the only thing worse than 
having to pay taxes is figuring out how to fill out the forms to pay 
taxes. As Albert Einstein said: ``The hardest thing in the world to 
understand is the income tax.'' He was right. It is 16,485 pages. Our 
income tax is an outrage, an outrage long in need of reform and 
simplification.
  Last week Republicans introduced an alternative to this outrage. The 
Taxpayer Choice Act does what it says. It gives taxpayers a choice 
between all the headaches of the current tax system or a highly 
simplified alternative tax. It simplifies the process for taxpayers and 
gives them what they deserve, a transparent, efficient, simple and fair 
Tax Code and completely eliminates AMT tax and makes permanent the 
capital gains and dividends tax cuts of 2001 and 2003.
  Madam Speaker, it is long time that we pass fundamental tax reform 
and give taxpayers the choice, the Taxpayer Choice Act.

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