[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5816]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TAX CODE LIBERATION DAY

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Speaker, the case for tax reform was never 
made more clear when Americans recently struggled to fill out their 
increasingly complicated income tax forms. What we really need now is 
Tax Code Liberation Day.
  Our convoluted Tax Code has become a major obstacle to individual 
freedom, which must be removed as soon as possible. It prevents small 
businesses from hiring more workers in what is now a nearly dead 
economic recovery.
  The burden of preparing your taxes is now nearly as onerous as 
actually paying for the taxes. It takes 13 hours for the average 
American to prepare his or her taxes. The Tax Code remains almost 4 
million words, many of which are incomprehensible.
  We must all work together to free small businesses and individuals of 
the most complex regulation of them all--the Federal Income Tax Code.

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