[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9374]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   OVERHAUL OUR CUMBERSOME TAX SYSTEM

  (Mr. SALI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SALI. Mr. Speaker, under Democrat leadership, the year 1993 
witnessed the greatest tax increase in American history, until 
recently. Just 3 months into this new Congress, the Democrats have 
shown their vision for America with a more than $400 billion budget 
increase, an increase which can only be paid for through a colossal 
scale of taxation that will reach nearly every American.
  The Federal Government has created a monster. Today, our Tax Code and 
regulations bulge at over 60,000 pages. I have yet to meet anyone who 
has read all of them. Americans pay billions of dollars to accountants 
and financial advisers just to comply with this labyrinth of rules. 
More than 50 percent of all taxpayers pay someone else to prepare their 
tax returns.
  Planning for the future is challenging enough without the added 
headache of complex taxes and confusing deductions, not to mention the 
uncertainty of how taxes may change from one year to the next. Congress 
has the moral responsibility to remove the obstacles it has created 
that punish Americans who are simply working hard to achieve their 
dreams.
  I encourage my colleagues in Congress to overhaul our cumbersome tax 
system.

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