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OK, I'll bite. Australia has a population of ~25 million, similar to Texas. So let's work with something of a similar scale to the U.S.: Would you be okay wi
by labster 8y ago
OK, I'll bite. Australia has a population of ~25 million, similar to Texas. So let's work with something of a similar scale to the U.S.: Would you be okay with having all of Australia's taxes being collected by the Commonwealth, and then getting your portion that way?
- tzs 8y agoThe population is pretty much irrelevant to scaling for this problem. The relevant parameter is the number of political subdivisions that the national entity would be distributing taxes to, which would be ~50 in the US and ~6 in Australia.
- tzs 8y ago...to elaborate, population is irrelevant because the national government is going to collect taxes nationwide for itself regardless of whether or not collecting taxes for the states is added to its duties. The "this problem" that we are talking about here is the problem of the national government handling state taxes in addition to national taxes. For this problem the national government is dealing with states, not individuals, and so it is the number of states that it has to deal with that is the main factor affecting complexity and scaling.