These attacks on the Tea Party are hilarious. For instance, the Vice-President and his cronies call the Tea Party folks terrorists. Yet they cannot bring themselves to use that word for the Islamic nuts who kill and maim. They concocted some antiseptic term for them.

There is a reason so many of the attacks on the Tea Party are vicious. The establishment fears them. The politicians of both parties fear them. The guys who don’t want to change the good ol’ boy way of doing things – they fear them.

They want to keep raising spending and keep raising taxes. They want to keep hauling in fat contributions. From those who benefit from the higher spending: The unions. The business groups. The trial lawyers. The education machine. The big businesses on subsidies from government. The entrenched bureaucrats. The lobbyists. The bureaucrats.

There is an army of such folks who do not want to change things. They do not want reforms. Because reforms would threaten their jobs.

Imagine if we reformed our tax code. Made it as simple as some tax codes overseas. Made it so you could do your taxes on a postcard. Ended all deductions. Stopped the practice of using the code to reshape society. Used it solely to collect taxes.

An army of accountants, lawyers, estate planners and tax advisors would have fits. They and thousands of those who lobby for deductions would be out of work.