by Tyler Brotherton

Created on: June 09, 2009

I have to say that as much as I would love to ignore all the large tax books, and stop worrying if I'm in "the next tax bracket," there is something that keeps rolling around in my head that causes me to favor keeping the current abomination we call the Tax Code. It's something that we are currently facing a lot in this particular blip on the radar screen of time. It's something that many of you may have experienced yourselves. Something I have had to deal with before, although I'm lucky enough to have evaded it this time around.

Unemployment.

Now, bear with me for a moment, as this will make sense in three sentences or less, and without all the fancy terminology, and charts, and alphabet soup. Imagine, if you will, all the ominous IRS buildings full of bustling mathematicians and all the tax prep shops you pass on your daily commute, especially when it comes dangerously close to that April 15th "Zero Hour." Now ask yourself how many times you've had to call them for advice, or have paid them for their services because, let's face it, this tax thing is way, way too complicated to even want to deal with, especially with all the other stuff going on in your life. Now ask yourself how many of those people would be out of jobs right now if all we had to do was "Okay, I made $30,000 this year, so here's 3,000 bucks! Have a nice life!"

As good as it sounds to get rid of all the complications of the tax code, and make everyone's lives easier, we are also way too deep into this to just jump back out and say, "Ya know, this just don't work for me!" The tax code has involuntarily created an entire industry. One that is massive. Software. Commercials, web pages, Uncle Sam costumes, college classes, antacids. This code is woven so deep into the fabric of our being, both economically and emotionally, that we would be doing ourselves a large disservice by just "tossing" it. Not to mention that the tax people pay taxes on what we pay them. So that's even more tax we would be losing out on, and, I know, nobody likes taxes, but all that money to fix roads and keep music programs alive in schools and pay firefighters, is kind of a big deal.

It would be the same as building a car that fixed itself. Auto mechanics? Gone. Tax gurus are like our financial mechanics. No we don't understand what they do, and yes we probably pay them too much for it, but they have families too. And I think in this time of dire need in the Good Ol' U.S.A., we can unite to help our fellow Americans, and let it slide.

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