We start today with a follow-up to last week’s column, in which I wrote, “Timothy Geithner won approval as Secretary of the Treasury, despite the fact that he’d failed to pay enough tax in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Do we need any more evidence that our tax code is too complicated? Simplify, simplify, simplify, and let thousands of CPAs and tax lawyers and lobbyists find productive work.” In response, D.T. from Alaska wrote, “You are assuming or maybe concluding that Timothy Geithner did not knowingly cheat on his taxes. With the plethora of examples in the media (and...
