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[Tax-chick]

comprehensive tax reform would be "difficult" to do

Well, we can't attempt to do anything Difficult, can we? Might damage our self-esteem. Incremental changes are definitely better. (/sarcasm)

I've decided I really dislike this man!

[KeyWest]

Misleading headline. Not unusual for Yahoo.

He is saying it will be hard, but can be done. So what is new in DC?

Politics is the art of the possible, unless you are Ronald Reagan. Then anything is possible.

[grobdriver]

This A$$hole needs to be fired and another Chairman appointed.
No more naysayers - put someone in who's attitude is, "We can do this", then get out of his/her way.

[tellw]

I can see where Grassley is coming from. I'd like a simpler tax code but I also like deducting mortgage interest, 401k, state/local income tax, my employer health plan premiums, public transit fare, and child tax credits.

[boomop1]

Difficult to appease the trial and tax lawyers, put them all out of work, they don't want to touch this bureaucrat's tax code, too many fat cat jobs at risk.

[Condor51]

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said comprehensive tax reform would be "difficult" to do. "I'm not one to spend a lot of time tilting at windmills," he said.

Then resign your post 'Sancho Panza'.

Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!

[Polyxene]

What is so difficult??? Shut down the IRS, stop collecting income/payroll tax and replace it with either a flat tax or federal sales tax. Sounds simple to me.

[frog_jerk_2004]

The Senate's top tax-writer expressed doubts Tuesday about prospects for a major overhaul of the tax code, dealing a blow to one of President Bush (news - web sites)'s top priorities two weeks after his re-election.

Oh well, we may as well give up now. Its over, scrap the plan, Yahoo! says so. Without Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa were doomed. I mean, there are only going to be 53 other Republicans and a couple of conservative DIMs to deal with and forget it. It wont be a fair fight with us possibly losing 1 Senator. Help, were drowning.

In other news: Man will not go to the moon, Man will not fly, Man will not cure Polio, and Man will not break the 4 minute mile because it is too hard and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa says it is impossible.

[laredo44]

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" John F. Kennedy

We need fewer "visionaries" like Grassley.

[Bahbah]

The reason it is "difficult" is because of all the interests whose oxen will be gored, not the least of which are the legislators themselves. It's a big bag of candy that they get to dole out in return for payoffs that they call campaign contributions. Please also keep in mind the "tax simplification" scheme in which they took away deductions helpful to the middle class (credit card debt, medical expenses, etc.) in return for lower rates and then, just as quickly as possible, raised the rates but did not reinstitute the deductions.

[Sprite518]

This is nothing but MSM trying to divide the Republicans since they know the Republicans can pretty much do what they want to now. The MSM is desperately trying to work hard for the Liberals. This is noting, but a piece of garbage.

[LincolnLover]

Wow, a US Senator that would fight to protect ethanol subsidies 'till his dying breath is, *gasp*, skeptical about making real reforms?

Color me unsurprised.

[steplock]

Is this guy a "lawyer" perchance? I bet he is!

Lawyers have all but destroyed this country - we must return the favor.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Grassley is enthralled to K-Street.

[Walkingfeather]

Re writing the tax coce would be difficult.... However Eliminating the tax code for a nat. sales tax would not. He knows what he is saying and not saying.

[BIGZ]

FLAT TAX ! FLAT TAX! FLAT TAX!

[Dementon]

Tax reform PING!