An income tax, old Alaskan style, would be intrusion enough but the paperwork required was (yes, I remember doing it) was minimal and there was no need for anyone of even average intelligence to pay an expensive "preparer".  But what we see now is incredibly intrusive, exceedingly complicated and most people will have to pay a professional to figure out what they owe.  So, in that sense, it's a "jobs" bill.  Whoopie!  We get to pay an unnecessary tax AND pay someone to figure out how much we have to fork over.  But, wait, it's so complicated that a gigantic state bureaucracy with lots of political plum jobs to be doled out.  Last estimate I heard was at least 80.  Of course there'll have to be a budget for those new cronies so perhaps the percentage amount being bandied about will have to be doubled to pay their wages, health insurance, overtime, training and, of course a lot of travel expenses to attend courses and seminars on how to shake people down efficiently.