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If you want to make the tax law more robust then we must make it simpler. Every new law just creates a new vector for loopholes. Anyone that has filled out some
by matt_wulfeck 11y ago
If you want to make the tax law more robust then we must make it simpler. Every new law just creates a new vector for loopholes. Anyone that has filled out something more complicated than a 1040ez knows that the current state of things is very broken and the complication is a serious advantage to wealthy corporations with tax lawyers.
Make it simple and accessible. Stop carving out special exceptions into every nook and cranny. And for God's sake stop creating more laws that further complicate it.
- danieltillett 11y agoComplication is a feature not a bug. You can't solve this until you solve the reason why the complication occurred in the first place (politicians need for cash). Any simplification of the tax law will just slide back to the current mess as each lobby group buys the loopholes they want. If you want to fix the tax system you need to fix the political system's need for cash. One of the more interesting things about this US election season is that the population is starting to get this. I think the US Supreme Court were rather clever ruling that injecting unlimited cash into the political system was Ok as it has accelerated this process of voter education.