Rand Paul takes a chainsaw to the tax code. Literally.

Rand Paul in a 2016 presidential campaign video
(Image credit: YouTube.com/Rand Paul)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is serious about killing America's long and complicated tax code. So serious, in fact, that he took a chainsaw, a woodchipper, and a flame to the lengthy document in a new political ad. "I'm trying to kill the tax code," Paul says. "All 70,000 pages of it."

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