Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.
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The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.
I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.
Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
Individuals and businesses must participate in a national discussion about a simpler tax system, one that collects sufficient revenue to meet appropriate federal responsibilities, but one resting on a broader, fairer tax base without penalizing saving and investing, the backbone of a strong, decentralized and thriving economy.
Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.
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