By KTAR.com
U.S. Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona has no illusions about the work he’s doing trying to rein in the country’s tax code.
“We’re trying to get rid of 30 years of, sort of, deductions and little gimmicks in the tax code that lobbyists have put there, so that becomes a knife fight,” he told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Arizona’s Morning News on Monday.
The Republican, who serves on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, said the current tax code, “was 67,000 pages and we’re taking a run at removing at least a third of those pages.
