A Good Observation

I have never carped about paying income tax per se. It’s an employer employee relationship and government SHOULD consider themselves beholden to us tax payers. I do think that if anyone of us has to pay income tax, ALL of us should have to pay -- even if the poorest can only pay $100. What I object to is the scale of the compliance documentation and the fact that the tax law is so elaborate, intertwined, confusing and in many cases the various laws are contradictory. I read somewhere that the tax laws are devised so that it is impossible to complete a middle class tax return without breaching one law or another -- and I believe that. I worked overseas for many years and, uniquely, prepared my own tax returns. It took all my non-working, non-sleeping time for two to three weeks and the document submitted ran to 3/4” thick. That and the threats to bankrupt people if they get their tax returns wrong, are my pet peeves with the income tax system.