What if Congressmen weren’t allowed to hire accountants to do their taxes?
Here’s a wild idea: what if Congressmen and women weren’t allowed to hire accountants or lawyers, use software or go to H&R Block to fill out their tax returns? What if, like that brave 10 percent who do their taxes themselves, Congress had to sit down and do their taxes on their own? Their first time would be atrocious: wading through hundreds of pages of tax code, endless provisions, starting their forms out from scratch when they got something wrong. All this with the fear of making a mistake and getting audited, with nobody to blame but themselves. It would be glorious: our legislators would be forced to acknowledge how monstrous the tax system is.
