text: """Happy"" Tax Day. Did you know that the US tax code is 74,000 pages long and that the average American will spend 13 hours preparing their taxes? How can a tax code that long, that complex, and that confusing be good? I believe we need comprehensive tax reform that simplifies the code, eliminates special interest loopholes and deductions, broadens the tax base, and LOWERS rates.  That type of tax code reform would boost economic growth and create jobs."