[caption id=”attachment_116207″ align=”aligncenter” width=”1024″]U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks with the media at the Peppermill restaurant Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, in Las Vegas. Paul is a possible Republican presidential candidate. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Americans prefer a trip to the dentist’s office to doing their taxes. (Perhaps they’d favor a trip to see the opthamologist, too?)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) certainly understands the sentiment, saying on Thursday that our current tax code should be “scrapped.” The remark came as part of a Facebook Q&A session where Paul was asked if Congress should abolish the IRS.
“The IRS is too big, too powerful, and we absolutely should scrap the code,” he said. “Look for my tax plan later this spring.”
In addition to his tax plan, Paul touted “Audit the Fed,” a proposal of his which would allow the comptroller general to audit the Federal Reserve. Critics of the policy, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, argue that the change would needlessly politicize the Federal Reserve. Paul continues to defend it, saying that “transparency is never a bad thing. We should know what they are doing. If they are doing thing[s] that are harmful, we should know that and address them.”
“Congress is always 10 years behind the American people,” Paul wrote during the Facebook Q&A. “Support for Audit the Fed has grown steadily over the least few years, especially since the bank bailouts.”
Paul’s father, Ron, was an Audit the Fed champion during his time in the House of Representatives. The House approved such an effort by a wide margin last year, but then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declined to let the bill have a vote in his chamber.
(h/t The Hill)
