How Do You Spell Relief? Try S-a-l-e-s T-a-x

Let Walmart and Amazon be the tax collectors. Odds are they will be vastly more efficient than the IRS, which at this point can’t even return the phone calls of bewildered taxpayers.

"No, No! Not That Way,"  political cartoon by Clifford Berryman, 1933 (detail). Wikimedia Commons

Remember the age old question about whether a million monkeys typing for a million years would recreate a Shakespearian play? That question is unanswered but the monkeys have succeeded in producing the United States Tax Code. Actually, given the mindless impenetrability of the 80,000-plus pages of the tax code and accompanying regs, it is insulting to our simian forbears to associate them with it. 

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