[heckler]

Imagine the effect on the economy if all those people out there in the private sector and in govt. are doing something productive instead of burning resources to adhere to our current tax code.

[Paulus Invictus]

As a small businessman, I spent more than 12 days just preparing my data for the tax accountant who has to help me make some sense of the Tax Code (who can possibly understand that million-pages of sustained idiocy?). The result is that I had to pay additional taxes for some obscure reasons even my accountant could not explain.

We consider ourselves middle-class (should that be spelled clASS?), but very year we seem to lose more purchasing power and savings--all due to the increase in taxes. I recently calculated that I pay at least 16 taxes to various and sundry gummint collectors at every level. That amounts to "taxation without competent representation" and I am near to telling them all it is far too much to ask me to pay over 50% of my income to support so many useless gummint programs. Taxes have just put me out of business. "I'm mad as hell and I won't take it anymore!" Time for a national tea party! How come the Russians were smarter than we are and put in a flat tax that seems to be working well?