It’s more or less
criminally deceptive for our elected representatives in Washington to keep
dissing the federal tax code as “too long, too complicated, too burdensome.”
Here’s the latest:
Sen. Orrin Hatch
(R-UT) said recently “First of all, we’ve got to take
a look at the code itself. You’re talking about 70,000 pages and we got to
skinny that down to where people can understand it.”
Indeed.
The tax
code is bloated with exceptions, deductions, givebacks, exemptions, waivers and
special language favoring specific industries and even specific companies—all
designed to reduce the tax liability of big companies, small companies and
individuals. A hundred years ago the entire tax code was 400 pages.
Let’s
start “simplifying” the federal tax code by getting rid of all that stuff, and
then see where we stand.
I think
most people could understand that.
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Richard Carl Subber 2015 All rights reserved.
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