(In reference to a paragraph length sentence on tax exempt items) That sentence...was obviously written by a lawyer in one of his flights of rhetorical secrecy. There isn't any thought or idea that can't be expressed in a fairly simple declarative sentence, or in a series of fairly simple declarative sentences. The contents of Section G of Form 1040, I am perfectly sure, could be stated so that the average person could grasp it without suffering dizzy spells. I could state it plainly myself if I could get some lawyer to disentangle it for me first. I'll make my government a proposition: for a five-dollar bill (and costs) I will state it plainly. (p.107)
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2.16.2012
E.B. White and the IRS' Rhetorical Secrecy
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