Subject: Disappointment with panel Comment: In recent months you, the president’s tax reform advisory panel, were in session and my excitement level rose to new heights. My hope was that the entire complicated, inefficient, gargantuan, costly, unfair, discriminatory, and disincentive present tax code that caters to special interests would soon be a vague memory. In 1913 there were 400 total pages of federal tax rules. In 2003 there were 54,846 pages, a 13,700% increase. I had hoped the IRS and its incremental oppression would be scrapped. I understand three goals were identified that you were to consider: simplification, efficiency, and limited government. Now the votes are in and it looks like you may as well have stayed home for all the good you did. News articles have printed some of your trifling recommendations, none of which will change the situation much. Most people would not even notice the changes and it does not appear those three goals were addressed at all. In other words, if you have your way, it will be more of the same, business as usual, and taxpayers be damned. Well, I would like to protest along with many others who want a drastic change, one that will get the government out of our lives once and for all, not bit by tiny bit. It looks like the voters of the land will have to shoulder the responsibility you disregarded to give us the FairTax Act that our country needs. In the first paragraph I said my excitement rose and I spoke of new hope but my eyes have been opened and I now have no more illusions that a group such as yours could accomplish something good. Thank goodness your job is nearly done and you can move out of the way of true reform. By true reform I mean the FairTax. A flat tax would merely take us back to 1913 and with the speed with which things move these days we would be back where we started in short order I sincerely hope that no one in the future hires you for your supposed wisdom because it was only supposed and as thin as the air. |