Tax troubles

David Boaz notes more tax problems in the Obama Administration, with Tom Daschle the latest to have underpaid to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars:

I sympathize with anybody trying to hold down his tax bill. Government is too big and too expensive, few of us feel we get our money’s worth from our taxes, and we all have better uses for our money than bridges to nowhere and free condoms. But honestly, shouldn’t people who want to increase taxes on the rest of us — like Daschle, Geithner, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Chairman Charles Rangel, Al Franken, Governor David Paterson’s top aide, Democratic National Convention staffers, Al Sharpton, and so on — pay their own taxes?

Good point. I would also argue that this could be another symptom of just how convoluted the tax code is, that perhaps these people didn't pay the right amount because they simply didn't know how to calculate their liability. Maybe that's too charitable, but this seems like further evidence that the tax code is too complicated, the burden too onerous, and that the system is crying out for reform.