...If you could make a tax system that was trivially simple, it would destroy a significant part of the economy, and put a lot of people out of work. If they had time to find new ways to make money, it would be an easier transition....
Yeah we need to keep those non-productive paper pushing jobs and expenses as a brake on the economy so everyone suffers not just the few who need to be retrained to do something productive for a change...we have had more “tax reforms” in my lifetime than I can remember we need to go cold turkey.
Mock all you want. Our government has made laws that have existed for decades, and those laws created the need for people who understood the tax code. It isn’t those people’s fault for meeting that need. Sure, government could eliminate that need tomorrow, but government does have an obligation not to destroy the lives of it’s citizens who in good faith dedicated themselves to servicing the needs of other citizens, even if that need was an artificial need created by the government.