The Ledger-Enquirer also reported that Houser was the son of Rembert Houser, a long-time tax commissioner in Muscogee county.
"It's mass confusion and there's a tremendous amount of abuse," sighs Douglas Stives, a long-time tax practitioner and now a professor of accounting at Monmouth University in New Jersey.
"It's the number one issue, more important than anything I can think of," said Bob McIntyre, a long-time tax reform advocate who works as Director of Citizens for Tax Justice, a non-partisan research organization dedicated to progressive taxation.
For a long time, cutting taxes for the poor was a major emphasis of the Republican Party.
But gains can be deferred for a long time, and a tax deferred is a tax diminished.
By slashing unemployment benefits, making it easier and cheaper to hire, offering tax credits to employers taking on people who have been jobless for a long time, and providing tax incentives to lure domestic jobs out the black market, Sweden has cut unemployment to 4.4percentt, or about half the French rate.
Indeed, he pointed out that Congress takes a long time to enact tax reductions, and that any cut could end up stimulating an economy that is already well recovered.
Newt Gingrich, who has vaulted into the lead in some polls as the most recent "anyone-but-Romney" favourite in the party, surprised many by calling for a partial amnesty for illegal immigrants who have lived in America for a long time and paid taxes.
"Most property tax reform groups that have been studying the issue for a long time understand that a tax cap is smoke and mirrors," said Susan Zimet, 56, an Ulster County legislator and a former New Paltz town supervisor.
The United Kingdom for a long time applied the income tax on corporations (companies) purely as a supplement to the taxation of individuals.
The administration's original wish list included the 13 months of extended federal unemployment compensation for people out of jobs for a long time and the extended tax credits for the working poor, college students and lower-income families with children.
