Steve Forbes believes that the biggest obstacles for progress in technology are regulations and taxes. The political culture has to keep pace with the rapid change in our business and social interactions. This has not been the case with telecom regulations and the tax code. Today computers extend the human mind the same way machines have extended human muscle. Computers and communications are going to have as profound a change on society as the industrial revolution.
Regulators are mostly worried about monopoly and prices.
A free market and competition would naturally keep prices in check. The burden of a complicated tax code on the nation is a tremendous waste of resources. Governments are reluctant to cut back on taxes because it limits their power. When someone asked him for a direct relationship between the flat tax and technology he didn't have an answer. I suppose I could imagine a html form to fill out your taxes.