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I do not always agree with Charles Krauthammer, but he was right on target in his column on the Internal Revenue Service (Op-Ed, Oct. 27).
He said the problem is not tax collectors out of control but tax writers out of control, and that the rules are an insane 9,451 pages long. It is the goofy Congress that writes these laws in response to big-business sponsors–insurance and real estate firms, the medical profession, Big Timber, Big Tobacco. When did the middle class have a lobbyist on Capitol Hill?
Not satisfied with their current greed, the rich and powerful now wish to give us a national sales tax, or a flat tax, that will add more money to their bank accounts. Whatever happened to that old principle of “ability to pay”?
