Here is the problem. If you want a simplified tax code and lower tax rates then that necessarily requires the elimination of many individual deductions. Every single deduction in the tax code is a sacred cow to someone.
They COULD add the deduction as a line item after the selection of Standard or Itemized deductions.
They won’t.
But some deductions should be on top of the Standard deduction. Just like they do with the POTUS Campaign funding.
HORSESHIT!
Spot on. Everyone wants simple taxes as long as their pet deduction is included.
That is a criminally doctrinaire rationale. The purpose of tax breaks is to encourage certain behaviors. Some of those behaviors are good for Americans as a whole, and some are not. Throwing them all in the same bucket is silly.