Enough money to cripple my economic situation vastly. Bob Dole may have to go without private air travel for a year to make up for it. Generally, the working poor spend all of their earnings purchasing necessities and paying the landlord, sometimes every last dime. The hundreds of thousands of millionaires in our country will stomp their feet and whine about the sales tax, when it comes time to buy a new car, or take that vacation. To listen to the call for simplicity coming from the flat taxers and the whole scrap the tax code bunch, one would think we all live in a simple time with simple answers and lots of simple solutions.
Times are complex, there are few simple answers, and everyone s financial situation is unique.
That s why we have an incremental system of taxation based on income levels, not based on just being here living and working, as some would like it to be. Yes, the IRS evidently has some mean people working for it. And yes, there have been many stories of horrible procedural errors. And yes, the current tax code is huge and should be made significantly smaller, and easier to understand, even for the accountants and lawyers of the rich who fret and charge more when the tax code gets bigger. I urge voting citizens and lawmakers to remember that every law written has its specific and general purpose, not excluding tax laws.