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by zanny 4094 days ago
Which is why it will never happen. It is against every elected representative with voting power to fix the American tax code to do so because they gain significant power with a system nobody can interpret without significant mental and time commitments.

You basically have to elect a majority of honest politicians to congress all running on the platform of fixing the tax code, and if you managed to perform that miracle greater than walking on water while turning it to wine, you would still be conceding literally every other political position to them because you had to do the most insane systemic uprising of policy in American history since prohibition, and anyone elected to vote for that would have their own anterior motives and agenda to replace the power vacuum from losing the tax morass.