Oh, so these nominees haven’t been, you know, paying everything they owe in taxes. Indeed, that is embarrassing. Especially to the tens of millions of Americans who do pay everything they owe every year. They, rightly, don’t understand why so many of President Obama’s nominees have run into tax troubles.
The answer is simple, of course: Politicians ought to fix our nation’s broken tax code.
A flat tax -- one that charged everyone a single rate with no deductions -- would be so simple even a sub-cabinet nominee could figure it out. Sure, there’d be plenty of CPAs and tax attorneys out of business -- but they’re smart people. They could certainly find other meaningful work.