Comment: Hello: I suggest you leave things as they are for the following reasons: -We are all familiar with the status quo and if it is tinkered with further, it could get more complex. -For those of us who have paid income taxes for the past 50 years, switching to a consumtion tax would be prohibitively expensive. -I use to travel in Europe extensively, and their VAT system frankly stinks, so please don't consider that as away to reform. -I did my own taxes pencil and paper as recently as the early '90's, but the advent of the computer tax programs made it so easy and affordable so I switched. In the past few years I have been using the web-based programs and only pay $9.95 to do fairly complicated tax returns, so once again, I vote for keeping the system the way it is. Thank you. Doug Elza |