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Taxes are intended to raise revenue. I don't see how making the tax code nearly incomprehensible enough people assign moralistic qualities to exploiting it full
by throwaway91111 9y ago
Taxes are intended to raise revenue. I don't see how making the tax code nearly incomprehensible enough people assign moralistic qualities to exploiting it fully is a working system.
- briandear 9y agoSee Milton Friedman’s lecture on the subject of convoluted tax codes. Spoiler: it gives government power because they can play favorites.
- conanbatt 9y agoThe one I saw is pretty funny, and he mentioned mostly how the left and right have different goals and fight each other. The left wants higher rates on the rich and the right wants to reduce it so it creates exemptions whenever it can. "The problem with a simple tax code is that the left and the right dont trust each other, and they are both right".