But some people actually DID ask that the tax code be thousands of pages. For one, tax preparation firms. For another, anti-tax advocates. Both of them advance

But some people actually DID ask that the tax code be thousands of pages. For one, tax preparation firms. For another, anti-tax advocates. Both of them advance their goals directly as a result of the complexity of the tax code, regardless of the underlying rules. (Anti-tax advocates would prefer taxes not to exist. But they want taxes that do exist to be painful, as a tactic to increase anti-tax sentiment.)