“Tax reform”—the always popular, always politically treacherous goal of making the tax code simpler and smarter—“is really difficult when you can’t throw money at it. Losers always squeak louder than winners cheer.”

— David Wessel Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget (2012)

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