Taxes - the elephant in the room and always a problem. There are, however, some simple fixes. (I went on to spout what was, I suspect, pure baloney) Then I started a the rant below - Anyway ...........

Some claim that our tax code is over 70,000 pages long! Regardless of how long it is its pretty well agreed that is is so complex that NOBODY understands it all. Its like a religion with a holy book, instead we have a tax code with a holy code. In both instances its mysterious, not understood, and has a priest class of accountants that serve and service the mighty national government. Its also completely insane (another one nobody really argues about). There is not a single person, in the entire nation that doesn't hate the system yet our elected, the ones we hire to run the country, is too busy infighting to take time out to do their damned jobs.

We are getting ready for the 2020 elections, politicians are making their pleas. When was the last time you heard even one of them, on either side, say something like; "I want to create a new system of taxes"? Hmmmmmmm? We are talking about the most hated thing in the entire country yet nobody gives a damn. We have problems, we all know it. The two biggest are endless war and taxes (to my own mind). The war thing is sometimes mentioned and the tax thing is never even mentioned! I started this with a silly stack of blarney. I got rid of them - waste of time.

Once the system gets fixed pass a new law that would ban any changes unless 3/4 of each house voted for it.

I probably should have added infrastructure to the problems. Here is a link for the heck of it.

If you google "infrastructure report card" you will also find a lot of others for states, etc. Seems that the asce hasn't put one out since 2017.
https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/
https://www.asce.org/


Last edited by jgw; 01/21/20 08:36 PM.