Mostly off topic, but every time the subject of US taxes comes up I can't help but think about Tom Clancy's Executive Orders. (Spoiler coming) At the beginning

Mostly off topic, but every time the subject of US taxes comes up I can't help but think about Tom Clancy's Executive Orders. (Spoiler coming) At the beginning of the book the entire US administration except Jack Ryan is killed in a terrorist attack, leaving him President and with the entire government to rebuild. Later in the book one of his advisors tells him something like "This is the only chance in History we will have to make all the hard decisions, all the hard choices we've been too afraid to make. We need to completely overhaul our tax system. This is our chance". As the years go by and all these plans are killed one after the other I realize how right this guy was.