“Fair” enforcement of a legally-enforced tax system is impossible. A just system would be physically impossible to cheat, not legally precarious. Shifting that

“Fair” enforcement of a legally-enforced tax system is impossible. A just system would be physically impossible to cheat, not legally precarious. Shifting that burden of legal compliance onto the individual is crippling for the society. The problem with ‘surveillance’ is that there is nothing positive about it for the productive honest people that have a lot to lose, and it’s really not much of a problem for the dishonest criminal with nothing to lose. I don’t think it’s possible to have a fair income tax. It’s also irrelevant. Bond issuance almost entirely funds the government already, it requires zero enforcement, zero taxpayer burden, and it’s impossible to cheat. Income tax is mostly an excuse for legal surveillance of other matters. Some of those might be reasonable and good, but the voters should decide that.