House Ways and
Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp has embarked on a "Tax Reform
Tour," on which he says, "we're going to be travelling across the
country in the coming weeks, meeting with Americans — individuals, families,
workers and business owners, big and small. We want to hear how we can make the
system fairer and easier to deal with for families across America."
Nothing wrong with the Michigan Republican trying to make the tax system "fairer
and easier to deal with," except for the fact that reforming the IRS isn't
the real issue.
Making the IRS
more customer-friendly, making its tax collection more efficient and reducing
the red tape generated by its daily operation is like giving aspirin to a dying
cancer patient. It may ease the pain ever so slightly for a little while, but
the terminal disease keeps eating away at the patient's body. As former
Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes has said, "We can't tinker
with this tax-code monstrosity or try to reform it around the edges. The only
thing we can do with this hideous beast is kill it, drive a stake
through its heart, bury it and hope that it never rises again to terrorize the
American people." It's time to
repeal the 16th Amendment, which gave Congress the power to levy income taxes,
and abolish the IRS.….To Read More……
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