The US TAX CODE is perverse and that is probably the main reason nothing can be done other than raise taxes! 2010 the U.S. tax code is 71,684 pages in length., and has been growing for the last 40 years very fast. Thousands of Rice Bowls (home mortgage deduction, capital gains, etc) and their Lobbyist groups will fight for their Rice Bowls. The was a well recognized academic paper (and the only one I know so far) which showed that in one case they were able to completely follow the money, one dollar of lobby costs paid off ten dollars for client. So all these groups will fight to keep their rice bowl and fight for the other rice bowls to take the cut. Now we have recently THE MOST LACKLUSTER congress. A monster rice bowl fight would keep them in a swivel forever. The only way to get ANY action is to increase taxes and let the people SCREAM, and have the SCREAM cause a complete re-write of the tax laws without the lobbyists involvement within the next two years.
My MODEST PROPOSAL it that ALL THE House and Senate candidates sign oaths that they will support a complete re-write of the US Tax laws within the next two years and that they will not allow any lobbyist involvement in this re-write.
Please note your support for or against this. If we get enough "for"- we need to get moving and get the candidates to sign up.
And if Grover Norquist does not like this, I will just point out he is a regiistered lobbyist