This is the Kato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, April 15, 2008. I'm Caleb Brown.

Tax Day is here. If you thought doing your taxes this year was complicated.

Chris Edwards, the Director of Tax Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, says just wait until next year.

Every April 15th tax day comes along and politicians always denounce the

complexity of the tax code and say they have to lighten a tax burden on Americans

but they don't do anything about it and this year is no different the

tax code is more complicated than ever there are now 67,000 pages of

tax laws and tax regulations in the federal tax code up from just 40,000

pages of laws and regulations just a decade ago.

So under Democratic governments, under Republican governments, the tax code

gets more and more complicated.

President Bush hasn't done anything about this problem.

The Democratic contenders for the White House

are not addressing this issue. In fact, Senators Obama and Senator Clinton have

promised all kinds of new special narrow loopholes in the tax code, which would only

make things worse.

The complexity, you know, isn't a problem in addition to the large frankly huge tax burden over

that Americans pay over $20,000 per household now paid in federal taxes this problem is getting worse and I don't hear

any federal policy makers addressing it. What about the tax changes on the

horizon in terms of tax cuts and AMT affected more people.

There's two big tax issues on the horizon for average families.

One is the expiration of President Bush's tax cuts at the end of 2010. At the end of 2010 all of the Bush tax cuts expire

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