&gt; Could the federal tax laws — 74,608 pages of legal gray areas and welters of credits, deductions and exemptions — be accurately rendered in an algorithm?<p>Funny how the discussion is never to simplify the code<p>Government is very good at creating their own problems. Then they get to complain about how there&#x27;s not much money for actual benefits to the population<p>The tax code should be designed to fit into 100 pages (or even better, 20 pages)<p>Reducing nominal taxes AND complex deductions would probably result in a net gain in revenue