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This is a nonstarter for precisely the reasons you state. With the stroke of a pen, you would eliminate a huge industry (tax attorneys, tax consultants, etc)
by IG_Semmelweiss 6y ago
This is a nonstarter for precisely the reasons you state.
With the stroke of a pen, you would eliminate a huge industry (tax attorneys, tax consultants, etc)
You can bet they will not go down without a fierce fight
This makes total sense. Except it cannot happen.
Same as term limits. Incredible idea. Never going to happen.
- gh-throw 6y agoThere exist reasonable arguments against term limits for members of legislative bodies, which arguments hinge on term limits greatly increasing the power of lobbyists, by effectively lowering the average skill and expertise of lawmakers.
- oblio 6y agoHow much skill and expertise do you need, though? In most fields of activity after 2-3-5 years you should you should be a reasonable journeyman and after 10 you should have a decent mastery of your field. To me a term limit of 15-20 years should be more than enough.
- plebianRube 6y agoTry changing jobs as a software dev after 10 years. Every 'good' company will put you through 3-4 coding challenges, treating you like your fresh out of college.
- oblio 6y agoYeah, but we're talking about public positions here (public office). High visibility into both the good and the bad that you do. Hardly comparable with software development work which is generally completely out of sight and therefore hard to quantify or verify. And I say this as someone who's been through the whole interview dance a bunch of times.
- oblio 6y agoHey, IG Semmelweiss, your tax improvements seem very reasonable. We shall proceed to ignore you and continue with our obviously bad ideas, to the detriment of everyone. Maybe in 20-30 years another person, let's call that person Pasteur, will come back with much the same ideas and everyone will listen to them.