Originally Posted by
BiffTFinancial
hey, thanks man. i really appreciate that. now i can stop taking "personal" a pretty lame attempted insult from someone i'll never meet who thinks that the internal revenue code is 2.5 million pages long. today really is gonna be a good day.
only you would take that as an insult and going to pretend that I really meant it was 2.5 million pages long. Sarcasm meet BiffTFinancial..... BiffTFinancial say hi to sarcasm.
Just to clear the air then, the cyborg thing was a joke also. I have never tested myself against the Cyborg T-101. Not that I know of.
My statement about the ridiculousness of the tax code stands. One page is all that is needed.
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The federal tax code, which was 400 pages long in 1913, has swollen to about 70,000. Americans now spend 7.6 billion hours a year grappling with an incomprehensible tangle of deductions, loopholes and arcane reporting requirements.
That is the equivalent of 3.8 million skilled workers toiling full-time, year-round, just to handle the paperwork. By this measure, the tax-compliance industry is six times larger than car-making.
An incredible 82 percent of taxpayers are so flummoxed that they pay for help. Some 60 percent hire an accountant or tax preparer, while another 22 percent use tax software.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/...hief-gets-help