Nothing is straightforward about income taxes.
That's why most Americans pay others to fill out their forms. The United States government estimates that its citizens spend approximately six billion hours per year doing their taxes, that's 50 hours per tax payer, which means that calculated over a lifetime each individual invests a full four months. In his weekly Give Me a Break segment, John Stossel looks at the tax code and questions how and why the forms got so long and complicated. He feels that Congress is to blame. Ultimately, however, the breaks help those who lobby the hardest and end up hurting the rest of us by expanding the tax code.