BS, BS, BS! There is no plan to simplify the tax code. It is too ingrained in the Dems (and too many Republicans) to use the tax code as both a carrot and a stick for social engineering instead of just using it as a method to collect the funds necessary to run government. Everything from the "progressive" (in the same sense that cancer is a progressive disease) tax rates to tax credits for weatherstripping your house is meant to get the American people to run through the right chute on the way to shearing like good little sheep.
To argue for a truly simplified tax code is to argue for the removal of all social controls from the tax code. Not going to happen under Obama.
“There is no plan to simplify the tax code. It is too ingrained in the Dems (and too many Republicans) to use the tax code as both a carrot and a stick for social engineering instead of just using it as a method to collect the funds necessary to run government.”
Correct.
Obama has already engaged in political larceny by stealing the tax-cuts terms and abusing it to describe his IRS check giveaways.
Then he did a ‘fiscal responsibility summit’ the SAME WEEK he signed off on the $800 BILLION BOONDOGGLE SPENDING bill.
This frauduluent Tax Simplification group will make the same blue ribbon proposals a Bush group gave 4 years ago, and it will go down the same black hole, as Congress ramps up another useless tax-subsidy-break, all while jacking up tax rates on work and income and production.