"It will NEVER happen. The tax lawyer lobby is too strong."
"As strong as that lobby is, Congress uses the tax codes to reward some and punnish others. It's the #1 tool that gives Congress its power over the country."
"Congress will never give up that power, not without a fight."
Of course there will be a fight. Noone ever said this would be easy. I get the impression sometimes that the Democrats think we never should have confronted the terrorists because this war on terrorism is rather difficult (to say the least). The insinuation seems to be that if something is difficult, we don't do it.
We had a saying in the USMC: "The difficult, we do immediately; the impossible takes slightly longer."
Just remember that for every special interest group there is out there, there are far more winners under real tax reform than there are losers. We outnumber them greatly. And that is what democracy is all about.
I like your attitude. I was just thinking that. Alan Colmes is famous for whining that fighting the WOT is too haaard, as if that's some kind of argument against taking on the challenge.
Defeatist attitudes never accomplished anything worthwhile. Whatever the outcome is, I want to see Republican politicians fighting to make substantial tax reform happen.