Still, companies like Siegel+Gale have actually had some impact. These guys work with government and private industry to try to get people to say what they mean in ways that others will understand.

They were, for example, tasked some years ago by the IRS to help the service’s bureaucrats develop ways to let taxpayers know what they are and are not required to do in language that the taxpayers (or at least their accountants) might understand. That is, to put it mildly, a Herculean task. The rules obviously need to be made clearer than they have been, because folks like Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and current Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner still can’t seem to figure them out.

To give Siegel+Gale credit, their people came up with the 1040EZ form, which has made life easier for millions of U.S. taxpayers who don’t have to hire professionals to wade through the complexities of an indecipherable tax code. That was a good start, but most Americans at one time or another run headlong into regulations and government requirements that not even a character out of a Harry Potter novel can begin to decipher.
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