Posted: Oct 12, 2005 By: Cindy Donnelly

Subject: tax reform

Comment: Tax Reform Panel,

I just finish reading Health, mortgage deductions eyed by William L Watts and to say that I am disappointed is an understatement. You were given the awesome responsibility to reform our joke of a tax system and the best you could come up with was a few more loop holes?

It looks like we will have the same old convoluted, outdated, loop holed, special interest loving, 20,000 page, congress loving thanks to its ability to vote buy, $200 billion/year compliance costing socialist system that we have now. On the up side: the IRS is proposing that they can fill out our tax papers for us and tell us what to pay (no conflict of interest there...and by the way if they make a mistake WE still pay the fine)--you know, to keep us stupid, uh I mean to make things easier for us and to keep those outrageous compliance costs in check (how thoughtful).

Why did you bother to waste time, energy and tax dollars if you weren’t going to change anything?