"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.
"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."
So you are only considering the taxes themselves and not the inefficiency of the system that is used to collect them. IOW, you are interested in tax relief, which is a completely separate and distinct issue, rather than tax reform. In addition, if there were a way to save American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars collectively in compliance costs, that would be of no interest to you, either, since that would not, in and of itself, change the total amount of taxes that you pay.