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Tom Purcell: Reformed, but not simplied

If only tax simplification were true.

 You see, one of the promises of the Republican tax-reform bill was that taxes would become way simpler for the majority of Americans to file - that we'd be able to file our taxes on a form the size of a postcard - but that isn't entirely so.

 Sure, the standard deduction will almost double, from $6,350 to $12,000 for single filers, from $12,700 to $24,...