FreedomTalks

FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey will be at the CNN/YouTube Republican debate tomorrow, talking about the candidates and tax reform. Armey submitted a question to the debate on tax reform that was voted on by more than 1,000 FreedomWorks members, and today he’s got an op-ed at Townhall.com that details some of the reasons why tax reform is so crucial. Here’s a sample:

Americans sent a man to the moon, figured out nuclear fission, and invented the automobile and the iPod. You’d think that something as ancient and simple as collecting taxes wouldn’t be so much trouble.

After all, taxes have been around since Biblical times. But the Good Book, in all its wisdom, only devotes a few lines to taxes. The U.S. government, on the other hand, saw fit to spend three times as many words on its Internal Revenue Code as are in the entire King James Bible. Now, I’m no theologian, but it seems like we might do better to follow the Lord’s lead on this one rather than the IRS.

Click here to read the whole thing.

Here’s Armey’s debate question:

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