And ironically, those same interests don't usually lower either middle-class tax rates nor the required complexity of the returns themselves! They just farm annoyance by making "IRS" a dirty word, and harvest it by some combination of imposing austerity on the IRS to make tax cheating by rich people less risky, and policy changes that just happen to benefit a class of people that excludes the bottom 80%.
And ironically, those same interests don't usually lower either middle-class tax rates nor the required complexity of the returns themselves! They just farm annoyance by making "IRS" a dirty word, and harvest it by some combination of imposing austerity on the IRS to make tax cheating by rich people less risky, and policy changes that just happen to benefit a class of people that excludes the bottom 80%.