[LeGrande]

Just do a google search. You will find tons of recent reports on tax compliance costs, just make sure you are looking at recent figures. 6 Billion hours of labor and $250 billion in compliance costs. This is 20-35% per industry depending. 7.65% of it is their FICA employer matching costs alone, or did you forget that?

If our GDP is over 10 trillion then 250 tax compliance costs is closer to 2% than 20-35%. Using bad math and bad examples doesn't help your cause : (

The solution is to cut the size of government. Then there are multiple great ways to support it.

[Badray]

The solution is to cut the size of government. Then there are multiple great ways to support it.

I agree totally, but allow me to ask you this. . .

How do you do that when about 40% of people are legally exempted from the income tax, another 10% or so have exempted themselves, and it's only 'rich guys like you' that pay taxes, why would any of them want to cut government spending? As long as you're buying lunch, they don't care what it costs. That's the problem we face.

If we get over half of voters as non taxpayers, how will we ever get them to change things in DC?