TIME FOR TAX REFORM? Bruce Bartlett: “Two recent announcements from the Obama administration have started the ball rolling on tax reform. This is a long overdue and welcome development. It’s critically important that Congress enact some sort of major tax reform every 10 years or so because the tax code becomes unbelievably cluttered very quickly with special tax provisions. It’s essential to clear away this underbrush from time to time and look at the tax system in its totality. Unfortunately, the last major tax reform effort took place in 1986.”

I’d like to see major tax reform, too, but I’m skeptical that we’ve got anyone in a position of influence in Washington who really wants to produce a less corrupt system. I’d love to be proved wrong. (Via TaxProf).