| Jim
Boren on tax experts: |
| “A tax expert is anyone
who can read five pages of the tax law without crying or ten pages without
laughing.” |
| Jim
Boren on money: |
| “If money could talk,
Congress would convene in Leavenworth.” |
| Jim
Boren on Washington politicians: |
| “For Washington politicians,
food for thought should include more fiber.” |
| Jim
Boren on special prosecutors: |
| "I had a nightmare that
IRS agents were being trained by special prosecutors, and when I pinched
myself, I was already awake." |
| Jim Boren, as quoted in the Wall Street
Journal, April 22, 1998, Page A-1. |
| Jim
Boren on tax reform: |
| "Red tape, we will tax
it/ And in and out baskets/ And we'll tax all those executive chairs./
We'll stop all the hocus/ Of forms that have choked us,/ And we'll tax
all those dumb questionnaires." |
Jim Boren, as quoted in the Wall Street
Journal in "Briefs" by Tom Herman,
May 27, 1998, Page A-1. |
| Jim
Boren on V.P. Gore's "plain language in government" initiative: |
| "Every bureaucrat has
a constitutional right to fuzzify, profundify and drivelate. It's a part
of our freedom of speech...If people can understand what is being said
in Washington, they might want to take over their own government again." |
| Jim Boren, as quoted in the Wall Street
Journalin "Government Bureaucrats to Learn a New Language: Simple English"
by Ronald G. Shafer, June 2, 1998, Page B-1.
Also appeared in "Perspectives," Newsweek, June
15, 1998, Page 21.
For more on this topic read Jim Boren's editorial as originally
printed in the New York Times, OP-ED Page, June 4, 1998. |
