[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5114]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE FEAR OF APRIL 15TH

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it's that time of year again--April 
15. You know what they say: the only things certain in life are death 
and more taxes.
  The day April 15th brings fear and trepidation into the hearts and 
souls of Americans across the fruited plain. The taxacrats have created 
a language that Americans really can't understand.
  When the Tax Code was created, it was about 400 pages. Today, it's 
over 70,000 pages long. And get this: each year it takes Americans 6 
billion hours to prepare their income tax, and American taxpayers spend 
$168 billion just to file their taxes every year.
  Just this week, President Obama unveiled his 2-month-late budget that 
includes, of course, $1.2 trillion in new taxes. Mr. Speaker, almost 
half of Americans pay no Federal income tax at all. What we need are 
more taxpayers, not more taxes.
  We should eliminate the burdensome, unfair income Tax Code and go to 
the fair tax--the national sales tax concept--or the flat tax, because 
everyone should pay their fair share to live in America.
  And that's just the way it is.

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