[jonathan180iq]

The thing is, I don't necessarily have a problem with the current tax code.
Is it a little complicated? Sure it is, if you never pay attention to it and if it's never taught in schools (which it isn't)

But to have a progressive tax code, you have to be a little more complicated than 9-9-9. (Just as example)
And since it's something that every working American has to deal with every year of their life from 18 until death, I don't understand why people don't know more about it.

They think it's some giant complicated trap simply because their only involvement with it consists of paying an H&R Block representative a certain amount of money and being surprised by the outcome of either "PAY" or "REFUND". If that's the extent of their experience, I can see why it would look like a giant conspiratorial racquet.