Two mooism2: 1. I suggested constitutional ban instead of law because a law in the constitution is less likely to be subject to scope creep; most bills signed i

Two mooism2: 1. I suggested constitutional ban instead of law because a law in the constitution is less likely to be subject to scope creep; most bills signed into law today are hundreds of pages long. IANAL (obviously) 2. Again, scope creep, also, the Halting Problem. If current trends continue, I could easily see tax-optimization taking the form of a lot of really difficult problems in computer science. Honestly, I suggest this because I'm very cynical. There's a lot of defacto federal "laws" that exist because of indirect pressure in other bills. For example, the drinking age in most states is 21 because if it's any lower states can't get federal funding for highways. It's true that direct tax reform would be a better way to go, but there's so many parties that stand to benefit from the complexity of the current system that I can't see any attempts at reform succeeding.