[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6047]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                                TAX DAY

  (Mr. McCAUL of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCAUL of Texas. Madam Speaker, once again, the tax man cometh. 
Today, April 15, is a day American taxpayers scramble to comply with a 
tax code over 67,000 pages long.
  In 2007, individual taxpayers spent over 3 billion hours complying 
with the Federal income tax laws. Individuals spent $26.5 billion for 
tax software, tax repairs, postage, and other costs related to filing 
their Federal income taxes. And corporations spend over $156 billion to 
comply with the Federal tax laws.
  Americans may send $2.5 trillion to the IRS, but the costs to our 
economy is much greater. Despite this, the majority party is forcing a 
$654 billion tax increase on the American people, the largest tax 
increase in American history. It is time to scrap this oppressive tax 
code. It is time to take a look at the fair tax or the flat tax as 
viable alternatives to our overly burdensome tax code, and it's time to 
stop punishing taxpayers and pass fundamental tax reform.

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