Subject: Tax Reform Comment: I feel that the current tax system we have in this country is severly outdated and very complicated. It does not lead itself to accomplishing the purpose of providing revenue for the country, but supports the necessity of having a large burecratic governmental agency to enforce the tax system. The governmental agency is the IRS, and for the most part they do not understand the tax code either. It serves to keep a large body of political lobbyists in business and costs taxpayers thousands of dollars each year in tax preperation fees, because the system is so complicated they cannot file themselves. It generally serves to help the high tax brackets, because they have the money to invest in accountants to do nothing other than look for legal loopholes in the system to avoid having to pay their fair share of taxes. If tax reform does nothing else other than to recommend keeping the current tax system and make additional changes to it, then this tax reform is dead wrong. It will serve nothing but keep the huge bureacracy as it is, or make it worse. It will increase loopholes to avoid paying taxes. This is wrong, and this is what you recommended to Pres. Bush. Perhaps this is becuase the lobbyists came to you the same way they do to most politicians. |