Hey man, I've got a job interview with the IRS this week. You're trying to run me out of a job before I even got it !

On a more serious vein, our tax code has become so complicated because the government uses taxes to provide incentives for behavior. In theory, not a bad idea. We want to encourage home ownership and support the construction industry, so we allow deductions on mortgage interest. We want to encourage education, so we provide tuition tax credits. Of course, politics always warps theoretically good ideas by allowing special interest to purchase laws in their favor. Seems to me, we need to reform Congress far more than we need to throw out the the IRS code. Considering how much lower our taxes are here in the US compared to the rest of the industrialized nations, I don't see a pressing need to throw out our tax system. If you want to complain about high taxes, talk to the Aussies or the Europeans - they know about high taxes. Of course, that's also how they fund some of their better social services.

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