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Penguin
02-26-2014, 05:25 PM
Interesting statement by the Ways and Means chairman on his new tax reform bill:

“You’re going to hear a lot about one provision or another,” Camp told reporters at a news conference introducing his long-awaited draft. “The truth is people want a simpler, fairer and flatter tax code.”

From thehill.com: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/199335-dave-camp-tax-reform-draft-long-overdue

Fair enough. But that simpler tax code is 1000 pages? Sheesh! :)

I might like this thing, I'll need to read up on it and see. Some of the things I read on the article are ones I strongly endorse and I'm sure there are some I won't like. But I have to tell you that I have come to believe that the more complex a law is and the longer it is in printed form the lower the likelihood it actually does anything positive.

1000 pages.... that's some serious typing man.

Will

BarryBobPosthole
02-26-2014, 05:47 PM
Aren't there Cliffs Notes?

BKB

Buckrub
02-26-2014, 06:09 PM
Isn't 1,000 better than the existing 273,000???

Penguin
02-26-2014, 06:26 PM
Isn't 1,000 better than the existing 273,000???

Damned good point. Maybe this is a drastic improvement and I just didn't know it. :)

Will

Buckrub
02-26-2014, 06:43 PM
I exaggerated (bad memory). It's 77,000 pages. Three times the size of Obamacare Bill that no one has ever read.

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2013/02/17/how-many-pages-long-is-the-us-income-tax-code-in-2013-n1514277

BarryBobPosthole
02-26-2014, 06:54 PM
How much per page does that work out to?

BKB

Buckrub
02-26-2014, 06:55 PM
How much what? Bullfeathers????

A ton.