Mr. Speaker, I have a lot of respect for this member as the most outspoken advocate of comprehensive tax reform in this place, but I want to ask the member to be honest with us.
He says that he is satisfied with this tiny, little increase in the basic personal exemption when what we continue to see in budget after budget are more loopholes, more complexity, more compliance costs and a more Byzantine tax code year after year. Does he not think it is time we started—