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That sounds like an ugly hack and I suspect that tax evasion reporter bounties would probably work better but I don't know their system and problems in details
by Nasrudith 7y ago
That sounds like an ugly hack and I suspect that tax evasion reporter bounties would probably work better but I don't know their system and problems in details beyond "rampant tax evasion and loopholes in an economy that isn't as advanced as it should be".
I had a related thought while having breakfast. A hypothetical transparent economy where everyone had open ledgers of transactions and how utopian or dystopian it would wind up.
Money laundering still be possible in that system - any uncertain value fudged up or down in exchange for illicit hidden transactions would work for that practice.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago>That sounds like an ugly hack and I suspect that tax evasion reporter bounties would probably work better Giving people an monetary incentive to rat on each other for something a large slice of the population engages in (to varying extents) almost always increases distrust and dysfunction in society. You can sometimes get away with it in some places where trust of government is very high and allegiance to local community is very low but Greece is not one of those places. Right now one of Greece's problems is too little trust in government (part of why people feel justified dodging taxes). Incentives like you described would be counterproductive.
- Nasrudith 7y agoHmm interesting perspective - I would have thought disrupting the "conspiratorial cohesion" as well as turning the greed of enterprises against them. Not what I would have thought.