<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Ken Hoagland]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=17537Author <![CDATA[Tax Code Needs a Radical Makeover]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 If we take the former Health and Human Services nominee, the secretary of the Treasury and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee at face value, federal taxes owed but not paid by each are really an indictment of the income tax system itself.

Given the complexity of the tax code, their explanations are not entirely without the ring of truth.

But when the chairman of the congressional committee that writes federal tax laws, the man responsible for running the IRS as the secretary of the Treasury and...]]>