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Director of regulatory policy for americans for tax reform. thats the organization that grover norquist founded. maddie, why do you want everyone to waste precious hours on their tax returns? why do you want to make peoples lives worse? >> chris, why do you want to point out that i was the second choice to grover. >> i apologize! but i hope that, because we named it. were not just talking about him when hes in the room. we love having you on. continue. >> thanks, chris. well, listen, i know that...

Pushed so hard and the republican congress voted for, a lot of my democratic colleagues, i think, mistakenly supported them. are they going to run that on a bake sale or by donations? its obvious nonsense. and by the way, as to this enforcement of the tax code, remember what the irs is trying to do? they are trying to say that you should not be getting the charitable deduction if your so-called charity, is, in fact, a front for a political contribution machine. and they have, and it was all goin...

One, i would like to see simpler taxes too. it is a separate conversation whether or not folks should just get a pre-filled out tax return from the irs. but the other thing, i think this is an important point when we talk about the tax system. if youve got one job, one bank account and taking the standard deduction, the tax code is not incredibly complicated. you shouldnt have to pay for tax prep. you shouldnt have to spend a lot of time worrying about it. the tax code gets really not simple at ...

Taxes are, the wealthier you are, the more complicated your taxes are, the more incentive you have to try to defund and gut the body that acts, essentially, as a regulator on your private wealth, and what you keep, and what you pay to the government. >> and that includes, by the way, the people -- and we know this is the case, who are sending their money offshore, who are sending it, and we finally did a good job trying to go after the swiss banks, to various caribbean nations. money that is ear...

Warrantly towards the internal revenue service. theyre the folks who many are writing a check to on this very day. but without the irs, or something like it, we wouldnt have a government. in fact, its the cornerstone upon which the entire edifice of the federal government is built. and that is precisely the reason conservatives have so consistently taken a sledgehammer to it. in fact, theyve been at it for years. in the 1990s, newt gingrich focused much of his agenda as speaker on abolishing the...

It needs to go. we need to pull it out by its roots. >> under george w. bush, republicans were at it again, trying to get rid of the tax code, with the fair tax act of 2003. in 2005, in 2007, and 2011. today, the fair tax act of 2013 lives on. it would also abolish the irs, the income tax, and repeal the 16th amendment that allows for the income tax in the first place. in other words, good-bye to the last hundred years of american governance. that, however, is an uphill battle, even for an empow...

Lets call the republicans bluff on this. you cited these efforts to reform the tax code and you cited 2003, 2005. lets be very clear. in 2003, in 2005, the republican controlled the majority in the house, in the senate. the longest period we have had in many decades of one party being in total control of the house, the senate, and the presidency for six years was during the republican rule from 2001 through 2006, and they didnt do it. so lets drop this pretense. they are bluffing! in fact, many ...