It is going to be a difficult question for this committee, to figure out how we can simplify the tax return without, say, doing away with the interest--home owner's interest deduction, things like that, which politically would be a fire storm that none of the politicians could weather.
Stark highlights the challenges of tax simplification without losing key deductions.
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