[FreedomCalls]

The code consists of 7.5 Million words.

So why not institute a flat tax instead?

[numberonepal]

So why not institute a flat tax instead?

Because it no ones frickin' business how much money I earn. Is that clear enough for you and all you other naysayers?

[Pylot]

ANYTHING would be an improvement! I am all for a flat tax or a sales tax.

[ancient_geezer]

So why not institute a flat tax instead?

That was what the first income tax bill called for, didn't last a single session of congress till the put it on steroids.

The problem of an income tax is not in the structure of its rates, its in the fact that government gets into the act of defining income. That is what takes that 60k pages of paper to describe and requires a gestapo IRS to administer and enforce.