Rand Paul Throws Tax Code in Woodchipper

"Hey, I'm Rand Paul and I'm trying to kill the tax code."

In an attempt to publicize his plan for a flat tax and one-page tax return, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul posted a video of the tax code being burned and thrown into a wood chipper.

Titled, "How Would You Kill the Tax Code?" it opens with Paul, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt in front of stacks upon stacks of paper.

"Hey, I'm Rand Paul and I'm trying to kill the tax code, all 70,000 pages of it," Paul says.

On Paul's website he says that unlike other Republicans, he doesn't believe that the tax code can be fixed.

"So I am announcing an over $2 trillion tax cut that would repeal the entire IRS tax code—more than 70,000 pages—and replace it with a low, broad-based tax of 14.5% on individuals and businesses. I would eliminate nearly every special-interest loophole," he said.

The video asks Americans how they would kill the tax code, fire, chainsaw or wood chipper.

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