"The problem is not how to collect taxes but how to reduce spending."
That is not the conclusion that the President's Tax Reform Commission arrived at after about 3 months of hearing testimony from witnesses and inviting comments from Americans all over the country. In fact, the title of their mid-term report was "America Needs a Better Tax System". Senator Mack said at the hearings week before last that not a single respondent had commented to the panel that the tax system is fine as is and that no reform is necessary.
"That is not the conclusion that the President's Tax Reform Commission arrived at after about 3 months of hearing testimony from witnesses and inviting comments from Americans all over the country."
Well, of course not. Their mission was not to reduce taxes but to find a better way to collect the same or more taxes. I don't want to pay the same or more, I want to pay less.