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3 Reasons Elected Officials Aren’t Fixing The US Taxing System
The United States has the most complicated tax system in the world. This is not an accident. The complexities of the tax code have been deliberately created by special interests to benefit themselves at the expense of the American people.
The result is a system that is rigged against the average taxpayer. The wealthy and well-connected can hire armies of lawyers and accountants to find loopholes that allow them to avoid paying their fair share, while the rest of us are stuck with a system that is overly complicated, confusing, and unfair. Elected officials are well aware of the problems with the tax system, but they didn’t act. Here are three reasons.
The current tax system is immensely complex
The United States tax code is more than 70,000 pages long. It is so complex that even the IRS has trouble enforcing it. This complexity benefits the wealthy and well-connected, who can afford to hire teams of lawyers and accountants to find loopholes and avoid paying their fair share. The average American taxpayer, on the other hand, is stuck with a system that is confusing and hard to navigate. This places a huge burden on individuals and businesses, and unfairly benefits those who can afford to hire experts to help them game the system.
