Trump's Estate Tax Giveaway To Rich Triggered 50% Drop In The IRS Revenue: Report

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24. Every time the tax code becomes more complex it tends to become more unfair.

Your suggestion requires, as it questions, the finite definition of "luxury item". But it doesn't stop at the IRS. If you look at the problems of government closely, you'll see the government's effort to define arbitrary terms has always undermined its mission. In an effort to be more clear, the legislation spewing forth from Washington becomes only more muddied in contemporary, temporary relevance.

Suddenly it's the USSC that chooses the meaning of a term in law. Often, the interpretation, the definition, is 180 deg. from the initial intent of the legislators. It's how the second amendment evolved from a simple directive for citizens to be ready to defend and support their government into a license to arm themselves for combat and prepare to kill their fellow citizens with virtual impunity. It's how a corporation, an entity, the existence of which is evidenced only by a contract between a few private persons, is permitted to exert profound political influence as if it were a masse of regular citizens acting upon their right to support their candidates.

Historically, selective definitions so infected the original founders' document that a massive civil war was required to settle the issue. The lame legislative compromises with reality of the post-civil-war years still haunts many aspects of American life, engendering challenges to its very existence.

It's best to speak plainly with an eye toward the approaching horizon. Unlike my overwrought diatribe.