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We have a whole section of the government dedicated to figuring out whether people are evading taxes and then pursuing them for it. It could use some more fundi
by imgabe 5y ago
We have a whole section of the government dedicated to figuring out whether people are evading taxes and then pursuing them for it. It could use some more funding, but that’s the appropriate way to do it.
What are you going to add by having uninformed members of the public inspecting tax returns they don’t understand? Keep in mind there are people who turn down raises because they think being in a higher tax bracket will cause them to lose money. These are the geniuses you want to catch tax evaders?
- vkou 5y ago> What are you going to add by having uninformed members of the public inspecting tax returns they don’t understand? Nobody's saying these people are illegaly evading taxes. The question is: "Should what they are doing be legal?". And that is absolutely a question for a layman. That's what representative democracy is all about. We get to collectively decide what is appropriate, and inappropriate in our society. Enforcement of the rules is for an unelected executive and judiciary, with limited public input. Determining the rules is for an elected legislature, with significant public input. There is no government department responsible for determining whether or not the current tax code is fair. We, the public, get to decide that.
- imgabe 5y agoOk, the question you proposed to answer in your previous comment was “Are the rich evading taxes?” which I took to mean the public should be assessing the current legality of what individual rich people are doing. Various tax strategies can be and are made public without needing to dox anyone. We are currently debating about them right now. So what do we gain by opening up everyone to identity theft and fraud?