[MicroBob]

i agree with your ideas of man-hours wasted and smart-people who could be out curing cancer or something instead of making money off of the gross-confusion-waste-of-paper that is the U.S. tax-code.


I disagree about your Steve Forbes implication though.
The guy was soundly defeated not BECAUSE of his tax-plan but because he had zero personality (or....in fact....an almost-negative personality).
If he was able to more intelligently and perhaps charismatically present the tax-code then it could have gotten somewhere.


I cringe to admit this....but if a Republican weren't TOO wacky on the social issues I would seriously consider voting for him if he were to solidly put a flat-tax at the front of his agenda (and have the backers in congress to support it too).


(fwiw - I am more independent than anything but am willing to vote for whichever party...even republican which I typically do not identify with... if I think the candidate actually has a clue)