Chris Christie said Tuesday night that his goal is to simplify the tax code to the point where the government is free to fire as many IRS agents as possible.
“[L]et me be clear about what were going to do… make the tax code fair, flatter and simpler, getting rid of all the special interest deductions,” Christie said in his opening comments in the Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate. “You know why the American people feel like the tax code is rigged for the rich. You know why they feel that way? Because it is.”
“We’ll get rid of all those special interest deductions except for the home interest deduction and the charitable contribution deduction, everyone will get lower rates, keep more of their own money,” he added. “Be able to file their own tax returns in fifteen minutes and by the way, the good thing, I’ll be able to fire a whole bunch of IRS agents once we do that.”
Christie spent the night making it clear that he’s running against Democrats, not other Republicans, and warned that electing Hillary Clinton is the real danger.
“If we don’t change course, if we follow the president’s lead, and that’s exactly what Secretary Clinton will do, we’re be in the same circumstance with government picking the winners and losers,” he said.
The Former New Jersey governor added that he would “get the government off our back” by eliminating the Dodd-Frank financial rules along with many other of the 81,000 regulations made by the Obama administration that he believes are “suffocating small business.”
This is Christie’s first time in the GOP undercard debate.
