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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