Our nation’s political environment has grown increasingly divided along partisan lines. The recent record-breaking 35-day government shutdown and the possibility of another shutdown at the end of the fiscal year stand as testaments to the ideological chasm between the two parties. Some issues, however, are not and should not be partisan. Protecting taxpayers from unintended complexity and confusion should be one of them.

Democrats’ unwillingness to prioritize nonpartisan technical corrections legislation, legislation that has in the past attracted bipartisan consensus, harms taxpayers by forcing them to abide by a flawed tax code.