Wondering about GWB's Tax Reform?

So is George Will.

Asked when he was near death to name things he regretted not doing, Andrew Jackson said: ``I didn't shoot Henry Clay, and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.'' President Bush, who seems determined to leave office with nothing undone -- except, maybe, horsewhipping Harry Reid -- vows to transform not only Social Security but the hydra-headed tax code...Tax simplification would be political reform, reducing the influence of the Washington-based lawyer-lobbyist complex that exists to wrinkle the code. Unfortunately, even rhetorical simplifiers are operational complicators. At last summer's Republican convention, Bush described the tax code as ``a complicated mess -- filled with special interest loopholes'' and vowed to ``simplify'' it. Well.

I don't know about you, but I was really excited when Steve Forbes brought the idea of a "Flat Tax" to the table. I have done my own taxes since I started paying taxes, just to make sure I always knew what I was paying and why. But after the first two years, I found it a heck of a lot easier to do it with TurboTax. And every year it has gotten harder. We are ready for a simpler system. We need a simpler system, if the economy is going to grow in the future.