The preemptive obituaries for tax reform have listed myriad causes of death: the stasis of our deliberative government, the tension between mobilized stakeholders, the sheer mechanics of balancing interests in a system with such wide reach — the list is seemingly endless. That Washington is, by nature, institutionally inert makes the pessimism that big things can be accomplished forgivable. But in an era when we reward disruption and demand innovation to modern challenges, why shouldn’t we insist that our government rise to the challenge?