None of the SCLM has caught this, but I was so dumbfounded I almost drove off the road as I listened to President Empty Suit on the radio. Bush launched into rant about Tax "Simplification" (aka Screw Joe Six-Pack) and he said he was "shocked" to discover that 330 billion dollars goes uncollected by the IRS! So what's his brilliant plan to deal with this problem? Hire more IRS agents, better software, more vigilant bookeeping, go get that moola?
Nooooooooooo. The Mighty Mandate Man's solution is Tax Simplification! See? People don't pay their taxes because the forms are too hard to understand! It's right there in the code, Section 71-C, "If the taxpayer finds the current system too confusing, said taxpayer is not required to pay taxes."
It's certainly not that Bush's billionaire cronies hire $500 an hour lawyers to shelter their money in Tierra Del Fuego condo developments and Jamaican Financial Launderettes. Nooooooooooooooo.......
And...of course....no one called him on it. No one said anything, like, oh, for example, "Ah, Mr. Preznit, you just coughed up a non-sequitur roughly the size of a Cadillac Escalade."
Sometimes his banality reaches such epic proportions, it takes on a kind of grandeur