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>and if we could actually simplify the tax code

not gonna happen. there's so many cushy bureaucrat jobs depending on an over-complex tax system that no one's going to touch it.

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I'd say that the main value of an over-complex tax code is to provide a moat for larger companies.

Yeah, I don’t think government jobs are the main driver of a complex tax code, but rather lobbyists who help write loopholes from which their companies can benefit.

Not quite. The biggest lobbyists against it are Intuit and other tax prep companies.

The American myth of cushy bureaucrat jobs, and that the creation of such jobs is a major force in policy, is propaganda.

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