The adage is ‘Keep It Simple Stupid’ not Simple, ‘Keep ‘em Stupid’.

This applies to Tax Laws and Governmental Regulations. Doesn’t it seem obvious that ‘the more intricate tax laws and regulations are made, the more inspired lawyers are to find loopholes’ ?

In their simplest form tax laws should be enough to bring in the revenues necessary to address the Enumerated Constitutional responsibilities of the Government and no more. **
Regulations put forth by Governments, Federal and State, should not interfere with Free Markets, Contracts or activities of The Citizens in normal interaction and business.
Taxes should be used to collect necessary revenues, not to punish or favor citizens, business entities or other organizations.
The purpose of regulation also is not to punish or favor citizens, business entities or other organizations.
Regulations and taxes should have simple visible functions and effects plainly spelled out and subject to review and revision.

The Constitution was written to limit Government, not us. Neither was it written to protect us from mistakes and their consequences. Freedom comes with responsibilities. Among these responsibilities is a responsibility for our personal decisions pertaining to lifestyle and interaction with others.
In a Representative Republic it is a responsibility of the citizens to elect competent, moral, and honest Representatives to serve in The Government.

Please Note, there is no mention in the Constitution or Bill of Rights of:
Privacy
Education
Housing
Health Care
Unions
Equality of Outcome
Food or Diet
Consumption of commodities

Perhaps this Federally Unenumerated wish list could be considered at local levels closer to the Citizens effected and subject to the vote of those effected.

**(The following Powers and Responsibilities ARE included in Section 8 of The Constitution )

*Collect Taxes;
*Pay the Debts;
*Provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;
*Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
*Coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
*Establish Post Offices and post Roads;
*Constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
*Declare War;
*Raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
*Provide and maintain a Navy;
*Make rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
*Provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
*Exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
*Make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

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(Amendment X in The Bill of Rights: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.)

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” -Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States and Famous Hollywood Actor

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