Obama's Cabinet and Tax Problems

It seems that over the last few days all we are hearing about from the media is unpaid taxes or the "tax problems" of people waiting to serve in the new Obama administration.

Clearly its a problem and in the case of Tom Daschle he felt it was enough of one to drop out. Obama has also lost other key appointees over these type of issues.

So, what I would like to know is, are all of these people crooks? Or, is it more likely that our tax code is ridiculously complicated and burdensome? I'm not a tax expert but it seems that the tax code which is thousands of pages long at this point is a bit out of control.

Maybe its time we started taking Austin Goolsbee's Simple Return concept seriously.