Star Community Newspapers - Flower Mound Leader - 03/08/2005 - Burgess reintroduces his flat-tax plan: "Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Flower Mound, introduced the Freedom Flat Tax Act of 2005 before the House of Representatives on Wednesday in Washington.
Again.
The bill is a reintroduction of Burgess' flat tax legislation, which he filed in April 2003 and died at the close of the 108th Congress on Dec. 9.
Made popular by Burgess' District 26 predecessor, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, as well as former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, the flat tax would do away with the complicated, time consuming Internal Revenue Service tax code and institute a single tax rate for all taxpayers.
'If you're like most people, where the IRS code is a burden and takes a lot of time and costs a lot of money to comply with,' Burgess said. 'I think people would take the option to go to a much simpler and fairer system.'
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