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The thought process is that they want to abolish more taxes, so they want complying with taxes to be as complicated as possible so they can get more people piss

• AnthonyMouse 3y ago
  > they want complying with taxes to be as complicated as possible so they can get more people pissed off at taxes more generally. There's nothing in that article that says that: > Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, does not. His presentation at the meeting argued that a return-free system would essentially audit every citizen, help the government increase revenues, and keep taxpayers unaware of their growing tax burden. Uninformed taxpayers might also be wary of challenging government-generated numbers and end up paying too much. The closest is "keep taxpayers unaware of their growing tax burden" but then you'd have to explain why you think it's the complexity that would increase awareness -- it generally does the opposite. And the first sentence on their website begins with "We believe in a system in which taxes are simpler...": https://www.atr.org/about/ https://www.atr.org/about/ It seems like their position is that the tax system should actually be made simpler instead of leaving it horrifically complicated and hiding the complexity from people so they're easier to take advantage of. Which isn't really the same thing as wanting it to be complicated. Also, that article is from 2005.