I Agree. My father is an accountant and hate doing taxes. He would much prefer a more simple method like this where it would be harder for errors to occur and avoid lengthy audits. He makes much less from those government audits than from other type work.
The complexity of the Tax code is also stupid. A lot of it could be simplified but that would eliminate government jobs quickly. Accountants won't care, there's a lot of lucrative work that still needs be done. In fact, most tax returns aren't done by CPA (or CA in Canada) anyway. H&R Block and others might be pissed and try to block this but they charge too much anyway.
Does the analogy work though? The fear in the rallying cry is that if musicians can't eat, they will stop making music, which means you can't have music anymore.
But if accountants can't eat, it's because there is less need for accounting, which is good for everybody except accountants.
The problem is that it is used as an axiom. It is always assumed there would be no music, but does anyone rational really believe that, or is it just music industry rhetoric? You can take the man out of the music but you can't take the music out of the man -- does anyone say something similar about accountants? (I personally think, and have experienced, that it's true about anything people are passionate about).
