Our Tax Code

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Yesterday was perhaps our greatest national holiday, if you're the government that is. That's because yesterday was tax day. The thing that is so horrible in taxes is perhaps not having to pay money to the government but that the tax code has 74,608 pages in it.  In the first 26 years of the federal income tax.  The tax code only grew from 400 to 504 pages.  In 1984 the tax code was only, compared to today, 26,300 pages.  That was just about 30 years ago and the tax code has tripled in its size.  There are large amounts of initiatives in the tax code that have lead to its ever larger size.  Such as buying hybrid vehicles and using ethanol.  Obamacare itself added about 3000 pages to the tax code.  It appears that we will never get a flat tax even though it would be the the fairest and least complicated solution to to our problem with the tax code.  A flat tax would just be too fair for our government and would allow everyone to pay the same rate.

I think our tax code is an abomination.  It doesn't add anything to society except confusion and resentment.  Also it is an over complex mess that needs to be reformed.  The tax code is probably the one thing that unites Americans together in their disdain of the government taking their money.  But you could also say that it breaks Americans apart because they know that the tax code isn't fair.  Another sign that the tax code is broken is that people need to go to tax filing firms that tell you what you need to pay because the tax code is just too complex for the average person to comprehend.  There are so many things wrong with taxes today that I could possibly go on all day.  But I will stop because you need to start getting ready for taxes next year and the pages that will get added to the tax code.