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February 07, 2010 03:58 PM “Sadists who were trying to be nice” by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules “Sadists who were trying to be nice”: that’s George Will’s characterization of the folks who devised the current tax system. “Every wrinkle in the code was put there to benefit this or that interest,” Will notes: that’s the “trying to be nice” part. But “since the 1986 tax simplification, the code has been recomplicated more [...] Click here to read the entire article » |
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