Simplify

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/11/01/build/state/30-corporate-taxes.inc" title="story">Lawmaker's request for tax records in front of Supreme Court</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A state senator has taken his fight over access to corporate income tax records to the state Supreme Court, arguing that the information should be open to the public under the Montana Constitution.<br />n<br />nSen. Jim Elliott, a Democrat from Trout Creek, has been stymied by the state Revenue Department and lower courts in his quest to get the information. Elliott believes, based on limited information from the legislative auditor, that some large and wealthy corporations are paying almost nothing in state income taxes. </blockquote><br />n<br />nMaybe I am missing something here but wouldn't it be easier just to simplify the tax system? If there wasn't so many loopholes in the system, people who can afford the high powered accountants wouldn't get away with such shit. Lawmakers don't mant simpler, they wouldn't feel in charge that way.<br />n<br />n<b>As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau</b><br />n<br />