>That would work in an ideal world, but in the real world laws will have flaws. Well, sure, and it's incumbent on Congress to fix them, not the bureaucracy or

>That would work in an ideal world, but in the real world laws will have flaws. Well, sure, and it's incumbent on Congress to fix them, not the bureaucracy or the courts. Of course there is some gray area where you can try to gain extra deductions through miscategorizating expenses and such, but that really a question of the letter of the law and not its spirit. >And just to come back, nobody can seriously claim that they believed it was in the spirit of the law to pay no taxes at all. That is entirely irrelevant and not even true for almost half the households in the US.