John Edwards's Idea of "Tax Reform"

Most politicians and every normal person understands that our tax system is broken. We spend thousands of dollars every year just to figure out how many dollars we owe the government. Personally, I go with TurboTax, but there is a lot of good tax software out there and even more tax accountants, tax attorneys, and bookkeepers who specialize in obscure corners of the tax code. Former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes called for a flat tax that "you can do the paperwork on the back of a post card." Libertarian Neal Boortz is calling for the "Fair Tax Plan" which is basically a national sales tax.

What is John Edwards's solution to the problem? He would leave the tax code as it is, and have the IRS do the forms for you. That's right, he would hire more IRS agents to fill out the forms for thousands of Americans, rather than simply make the tax code comprehensible. Sigh.