Is Our Tax Code Anti-Democratic?

Our tax code is so long and detailed that no average citizen will understand it. Accountants, lawyers trained in tax, some few others - those people might know what the various provisions or proposed changes mean, and what effects they will have, but the vast majority of us (speaking as a 3rd year law student at a top school who has not taken tax) do not know, and do not have the time or energy to find out. Our government is meant to be by the people, for the people, of the people - but if we can't even understand what our government is doing, then how can it be?