Obama Announces Re-election Bid

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Originally Posted by lookout123

For me the discussion is less about the percentage charged than it is the game that is played. The elected, the IRS, and the accounting industry have a vested interest in keeping things complex.

That is a problem. However it is not the IRS that makes things complex. IRS only execute the laws. Laws that create 10,000+ pages. Nobody in the IRS can understand it. Congressmen cannot even understand their own taxes.

No different than a GM executive who does not even have a driver's license.

It is no longer a game when men who make the rules must also live by the consequences. Currently rule makers do not. Making them do their own taxes by hand would not solve the problem. But let them know how bad things really are.

Iacocca said he could make Chrysler more profitable by turning it into a finance company. Playing finance games was more profitable than being productive. Today it is even worse. Games created by Congress to both with spending and taxes. So, yes, that really is the problem. Not the taxes or spending. The people who continue to make these problems and who cannot do anything to solve them. People who do not even understand the consequences of their actions.

Spending and tax laws are not the problem. Those are only symptoms. We have a government now dominated by extremists. That means solutions - even eliminating a paper dollar bill - are almost impossible.

Who lost most in the last Congressional elections? Moderates lost by a landslide. Therein lays the loss of our best problem solvers.