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I don't have a "tax ping list" and if I did it would be up to me to decide when I wanted to use it for any particular article.

There is no "me and my gang" and there are plenty of articles that get posted on income tax cuts, and the effects of same, as well as death tax repeal, which I do support and post to. I also favor entitlement reform and provatization as one of our must urgent tasks, and hope that we are able to make some progress in this area in the next Congress.

The problem is that entitlement spending is mandatory and with SS makes up a whopping 60% of the US budget...b/c entitlement spending is not discretionary, but mandatory, reform is not gonna happen no matter what Congress we end up with. We need to attack from the other side and start telling them what they can spend not allowing them to take whatever they want...if we don't put a choke hold on the money going in why would they ever reign in the vote buying spending spree?

Believing that Congress will stop spending while letting them hold the purse is like telling a teen that they can have whatever allowance they want and can demand more money when they run out, but still expecting them not to spend.

"I also favor entitlement reform and provatization [sic] as one of our must urgent tasks, and hope that we are able to make some progress in this area in the next Congress. "

No doubt you do - as do many other taxpayers - however it hasn't happened in the last couple of generations nor in fact for almost 100 years now (with respect to the income tax itself), so "hoping" as you do that the situation will magically correct itself within Congress is something like "... if wishes were horses then beggars would ride ...".

In fact, the only real likelihood of meaningful change in the tax laws or S/S & M/C that I see is to separate them from an income tax that can be (and is) incrementally manipulated at the whim of Congress to a tax form such as the FairTax where raising tax rates raises them on ALL taxpayers - something most congressmen would think long and hard about since Job 1 is getting elected again.

Such a change in S/S & M/C funding will be the most rapid possible demonstration to an individual taxpayer what the real cost of these entitlements is to him each and every time he buys a taxable thing ... and no, it's not the cost of the thing involved "plus 30%" as is so often seen in the demagoguery on these threads, but the cost of the thing plus the effective FairTax rate (normally much less than the 23% ti marginal rate).