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Well, yes. Things are more complicated than they frequently appear. The Post's agenda might have had more to do with not boring and confusing their readers than anything else.
No one is going to turn down an extra $20k in pretax income because they don't want to pay more taxes (provided they net an increase in money). I haven't owed taxes for most of my adult life, but I'm still going into considerable debt to put myself in a position to earn a lot more money (and pay a lot more taxes). When a computer program does your taxes, simplicity of the tax code becomes less relevant.
And it could just as easily be complexity that ends up benefiting the less wealthy. The devil is in the details.
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