Fiorina: Use online reviewers to streamline tax code
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina wants the public to review tax rules the same way they would a trendy restaurant.
The possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate has an idea to cut through what she calls “regulatory thicket” that relies on star ratings from online reviewers.
“People think I’m joking, but you know, maybe we ought to put up every single one of those regulations up on the Internet — it’s pretty easy to do, actually — and ask the American people to vote on them,” Fiorina told The Daily Signal’s David Brody on Friday.
{mosads}“Five stars, we keep you, one star, you’re gone,” she proposed. “Wouldn’t that put interesting pressure on the political process?”
Fiorina on Friday called for as many swift, merciless cuts to the federal tax code as possible.
“You can’t have a 26,000-page tax code,” she said. “You can’t have a regulatory thicket that has been growing for 40 years. We need to vastly simplify.”
Fiorina argued Americans need to escape the dense tangle of government rules and restrictions on them.
“Can you ever remember a single reg ever being repealed?” she asked.
“None of them have,” Fiorina argued. “It’s always just been growing and growing and growing.”
“We need to hack through all of that,” she concluded.
Fiorina added that clarifying the tax code would help Americans better manage their freedom. The alternative, she argued, was a government that lorded over citizens with secret knowledge.
“What happens when a system is so complicated and so powerful that only the powerful, the wealthy, the well connected can deal with all that?” she asked.
“The only way to level the playing field and make sure that the powerful and powerless, the big and the small, are all on the same level, the only way to do that is simplify, simplify, simplify,” she said.
Fiorina has not yet decided on an official 2016 run. If she pursues the White House, she would follow Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.), who have all already announced bids.
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