He is attempting to shoot straight and he seems successful. He did however, fail to list compliance costs as an embedded cost of the present system. Not only is that a big cost, it is also one thing that makes the present system so odious. Not only is the gathering and keeping of information a burden but the information itself which is supplied to an already overly Big Brother government is almost a complete outline of a persons personal history. And some folks worry about the Patriot Act??.
Part of HR 25 is the destruction of all government held IRS records. A lot of people would breath easier with a nice, completely annoymous, tax system.