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Article: SCRAPPING THE TAX CODE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 26, 2007
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Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. (6th CD), issued the following newsletter:
As of 2001, the American tax code contained nearly 1.7 million words which is nearly 380 times the number of words in the U.S. Constitution. The fact is our current tax system has spiraled out of control. Virginians simply trying to follow the letter of the law when filing their federal tax returns are confronted with a 17,000-page monstrosity known as the Internal Revenue Code. The current federal tax code is broken beyond repair and it is obvious that tax reform is absolutely necessary. However, efforts to reform the tax code have all stalled.
At a time when Americans devote a total of 7.4 billion hours each year to ...