CNN Erin Burnett OutFront April 2, 2013 23:24:00
The government in check. but does that argument add up? tom foreman's "outfront" with the story. >> reporter: americans spend billions of dollars and houring filing taxes, filling in the boxes, all the numbers. >> i don't want to make any mistakes. i feel like it's too tedious, a lot of numbers. >> reporter: and if you say this should be easier to any economist, like, say, joe bankman at stanford, he'll tell you -- >> that's absolutely right, tom. >> reporter: so why isn't it? because the business of tax preparation is huge. and virtually every attempt to simplify taxes in recent years has bee...