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Scott Simon nailed it on this tax code mess. Give him a "10" for perfect illustration of the problem.

Bobert, I don't know about your taxes, but I don't earn much and I have to jump through a whole bunch of hoops for this credit and that deduction, etc., every year. I don't earn enough to take my taxes to a preparer unless there is a complication (like doing estate stuff), and I want to know what is going on with them. And what is going on is a complicated mess, on the part of the government. Rube Goldberg couldn't have designed a more idiotic, complex set of forms to have to prepare.

SRS