[harpseal]

The purpose of taxation in our nation at present is to concentrate power in groups that otherwise produce nothing. We will never get rid of the complicated tax structure we now have because far too many tax professionals live off the current tax code.

[EternalVigilance]

I know this may sound counter-intuitive (I once thought the same thing), but in having talked to literally hundreds of tax accountants and attorneys over the last decade about this issue, they as as a group support this change overwhelmingly (the ones who have studied the issue for themselves).

No one knows better than they do how incredibly screwed up and counter-productive the current system is. Repeatedly they have told me that they could care less about losing the tax preparation business--they have plenty of other ways to make money.

Many of them also have told me that they figure the business growth that would result would guarantee them all the traffic they could handle.