The way to fix this mess, needless to say, is to junk the entire tax code and start all over.

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Even better, why not junk the entire tax code so we can replace the IRS with a system that is honest and fair?

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But in the 1990s and 2000s Congress began tinkering again, a lot of the junk removed from the code "has been put right back in, " and tax rates started rising.

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Gigabytes of junk data could be dumped onto PCs via a loophole in web code, a developer has found.

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Link acknowledged that there could be problems enforcing the code if one spammer tried to get a rival shut down by sending junk mail on their behalf.

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The new console looks like it has been constructed from items out of a junk shop, including an old typewriter, a telephone, pressure gauges and a Morse code machine.

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With all the hysterical talk about slowing takeovers with legislation, about curbing the spread of junk bond acquisitions and foreign buying of U.S. assets, few people seem aware that our current tax code--passed by Congress and approved in general by the business community--provides a huge bounty to people whether Americans or foreigners, who want to take over companies.

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