Feeling Overtaxed?

Jeff Cornwall posted a singularly appropriate collection of thoughts for this tax day on his blog. We're long overdue for intelligent change to the tax code, instead of the seemingly endless tinkering, all of which seems to result in higher taxes for most of us who are not indigent.

I've been watching and listening to the various proposals to replace the income tax for about 25 years now, and I'm getting damned tired of the wait. And with the AMT bidding to assault most of us sometime in the next 5 years, it's high time that our Representatives and Senators got off their collective posteriors and fixed this mess. Almost anything would be an improvement, but the usual problem obtains: Is there an adequate number of politicians in D.C. with guts enough to act, and integrity enough to choose one or another of the plans that would improve the situation?