". . . when it comes to the workings of our tax system, I
have just about seen it all, and that experience has led me to
the conclusion that we should repeal the Internal Revenue Code
and start over. Eight decades. . . have produced an impenetrable
maze. I favor replacing the system."
-- Shirley D. Peterson, Attorney, former IRS Commissioner

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"The IRS has become a symbol of the most intrusive, oppressive and non-democratic institution in our democratic society."
-- Former IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg

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"... the key question is: can we define 'income' in a fair and
reasonably straightforward manner? Unfortunately we have not yet succeeded in doing so. We should repeal the Internal Revenue Code and start over."
-- Former IRS Commissioner Shirley Peterson, April 1993

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"Eight decades of amendments... to [the] code have produced a
virtually impenetrable maze... The rules are unintelligible to
most citizens... The rules are equally mysterious to many
government employees who are charged with administering and
enforcing the law".
-- Former IRS Commissioner Shirley Peterson,
April 14, 1993 at Southern Methodist University

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   "I believe that a better way to raise revenue not only can be found but must be found because I am convinced that the present system is leading us right back to the very tyranny from which those, who established this land of freedom, risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to forever free themselves..."

"I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these
taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his
capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism.
It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him".
-- Former IRS Commissioner T. Coleman Andrews,
May 25, 1956 in US. News & World Report

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"Today the income tax is in trouble, because its exaction's
are forcing the middle class into poverty, and IRS abuses are
routine."
-- Paul Craig Roberts, former Asst. Secretary - U.S. Treasury

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"The (tax) system is so sick that we must put it to sleep and
start over."
-- Richard Davis, former Assistant IRS Branch Chief

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