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How is excluding tax frauds a "net loss for the nation"? If you want to say that ID documents should be something that's much less painful for individuals to a
by groby_b 5y ago
How is excluding tax frauds a "net loss for the nation"?
If you want to say that ID documents should be something that's much less painful for individuals to acquire (and should be free!), completely agreed.
But the idea that a modern society can function without a safe identification system is somewhat far fetched to me.
- InefficientRed 5y ago> How is excluding tax frauds a "net loss for the nation"? Calling this tax fraud is... I guess true, but kind of odd and silly. Two people making $X/2 will in almost all cases pay more taxes while receiving fewer benefits than one person making $X. If you wanted to pay fewer taxes, you wouldn't use this scheme except in a few strange edge cases. I don't think the brothers are sharing a passport, a driver's license, and tax filings in order to reduce their tax bill... (Reading between the lines, since you didn't seem to pick up on it: one of the brothers is an undocumented immigrant. The goal is not tax minimization... the two brothers are paying more taxes while receiving fewer benefits in order to avoid deportation of the undocumented brother.)
- londons_explore 5y agoActually I think one of the brothers never got a birth certificate because their mother didn't want to do the paperwork.
- InefficientRed 5y agoTruly strange case. Why hasn't he resolved this issue?