Simplify the existing tax code.
Great plan! Will work wonders.
Never mind that in the past 10 years there has been in excess of 10,000 changes to the tax code.
So, simply today, change tomorrow.
What is accomplished?
“Simplify the existing tax code.”
Insufficient. It leaves every American an accountant, and the IRS with its nose in our business.
Neither is acceptable.
Every time Congress "simplifies" the tax code they usually make it more complicated and tailor it to special interest groups even more.
Any real gains in simplification are undone as Congress tweaks it to give "much needed tax relief to..." whoever.
The IRS is a bloated governmental organization who's main purpose is to employ civil servants while producing nothing.
The purpose of payroll taxes is to prevent people from realizing how they are being taxed multiple times.
Payroll taxes need to be done away with.
The IRS needs to shrink to the size needed to audit retailers to make sure they are collecting the taxes, and to send out rebates based on household size. Not the size required to make sure every business and individual is complying with insanely complex business and personal income taxes as well as all the sin taxes, gas taxes, and other federal taxes.
We also don't need the government using "tax exemptions" as an excuse to interfere with the operations of Churches and inhibiting the free speech and freedom of association of religious organizations.