When a person must spend this much time fighting for his money rather than earning it, the incentives for making money become increasingly unproductive. Entire careers build up around understanding the ever changing mountain of tax laws passed each year. The naive would say 'but that is creating more jobs', but unfortunately it isn't; It's redirecting labor from where it would have otherwise been put to use in a more productive fashion.Not quite on topic I know, but I just got done reading how much corporate influence factors into our tax code and adds obfuscated exemptions to this growing monstrosity. I needed to vent. http://www.google.com/search?q=us+tax+code+number+ ...