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1. This is a flat income tax, not a flat sales tax. 2. Sales taxes are regressive. 3. As a general rule, if a concept is simple enough for you to support on p

• DanielBMarkham 17y ago
  Yes, the problem is that things become much more complicated very quickly, and all real-world implementations do not match theory. What that means is that principles matter. Taking this back to my original point, and follow-up point, which had nothing to do with taxes: problem solving is many times a search for definitions. Once definitions are agreed on, all solutions become a matter of applying various principles in various degrees. Real-world solutions never match the terms that the original problem is presented in. In fact, good solutions usually involve creation of a new language. But without mutual clearly-understood terms, you never get there.
  • showerst 17y ago
    I would say that a very large part of modern politics is defining (subverting?) the terms people use. "Abortion" or "Women's rights"? I'd also point out that law is in many ways like software, if you try to do a large number of things for a huge audience, the number of edge-cases that must be addressed can quickly become overwhelming. Unfortunately national governments don't generally have the luxury of just targeting a niche audience or creating different products for different people like a startup might, so there's inherently some complexity in the process, thus room for mistakes.