TOP TEN REASONS TO scrap the tax code in favor of something much simpler. On the other hand, here’s why there’s pressure to keep it: “The Congressmen on the House Ways and Means Committee Received $55,157,458 in the 2008 Election Cycle. . . . If we scrapped the code, the committee members would lose their power to manipulate the code in order to pay off their campaign contributors.” Unless, you know, they worry about losing their seats more than losing the donations.