Well, Alan Simpson made a career of being in govt. He is part of the problem. If he really wanted to be a solution maker, he should have done so a long time ago.
Old “aw shucks” Simpson uses the government favorite tweet “tax expenditures” in making his argument. Tax expenditures mean the government owns you and anything they let you keep of what you earn is a tax expenditure. Idiots like Simpson should just go away.