Thanks to the surprising election of Donald Trump and the Republicans ability to hold both chambers of Congress, the reality of tax reform is a topic in Washington, DC that has been the focus of a number of events since the election. It has been thirty years since the Tax Code underwent real reform, and since 1986 it has only grown in length and complexity. Today the code is over 70,000 pages long and requires 8.9 billion hours of labor per year, at a cost to the economy of nearly $234.4 billion per year. According to the Charles Koch Institute’s Dana Wade, a major reason for the growth in...

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