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Director of regulatory policy for americans for tax reform. that's 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 people's 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. we're not just talking about him when he's in the room. we love having you on. continue. >> thanks, chris. well, listen, i know that this seems like an appealing argument to make tax preparation simpler, but what we would like t...

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? it's 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 going to be done first. and there was some suspicion it might have been conservatives. but it's now cle...

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 you've got one job, one bank account and taking the standard deduction, the tax code is not incredibly complicated. you shouldn't have to pay for tax prep. you shouldn't have to spend a lot of time worrying about it. the tax code gets really not simple at all when you get up to real rich people who are doing a lot of sheltering and sort of i.r.a.s and...

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 earned in america and is sent overseas and sheltered from taxes, if we don't have irs agents, we can't ...

Warrantly towards the internal revenue service. they're the folks who many are writing a check to on this very day. but without the irs, or something like it, we wouldn't have a government. in fact, it's 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, they've been at it for years. in the 1990s, newt gingrich focused much of his agenda as speaker on abolishing the agency. even launching a national scrap the tax tour. in 1998, house republicans voted on the t...