Indeed. Why no 'flat taxes'? Flat taxes with no exemptions eliminate armies of tax collectors, accountants and lawyers. They would eliminate a host of nickel

Indeed. Why no 'flat taxes'? Flat taxes with no exemptions eliminate armies of tax collectors, accountants and lawyers. They would eliminate a host of nickel-and-diming taxes. A flat tax is beneficial to everyone but a politician who wants to punish one set of voters and reward another. So we get tax codes running to thousands of pages, millions of man-hours spent evading the rules and enforcing them, lobbyists spending all their waking hours trying to get their competitors taxed and their paymaster untaxed. A fixed tax rate on the size of the economy and a fixed government size to match the tax rate would solve a million problems, but simplicity is like anti-matter to governments.