Posted: Apr 30, 2005 By: Alvin Rhiner

Subject: Tax reform

Comment: If you are serious about tax reform, then to get it simplified and the simplification expedited, pass a federal rule where any politician in office or wanting to run for a federal office has to fill out his or her own tax form in public, in 8 hours, without any outside help and without a mistake. If they can't do it, then prohibit them from running for any federal office for 10 years and if in office they have to resign.

This committee is not serious about tax reform unless you make every politician, including yourselves, personally responsible for complying to your own rules.