I think the key takeaway here is that complexity is a completely different thing than policy. We've had all sorts of politicians make all kinds of great speech

I think the key takeaway here is that complexity is a completely different thing than policy. We've had all sorts of politicians make all kinds of great speeches about various policies to implement with the tax code. All that got us was a complex mess. Inside that mess was a lot of corruption paid for by lobbiests. You can hide a lot of cronyism in a tax code. I think no matter what you want the tax system to do, as technologists we can ask you to make it do that in a very simple, understandable way. So I support a flat tax, but not because it's "fair." I care about structure, I don't care about fair. Make it understandable, and then we can all decide whether it's fair or not. We'll vote people in and out of office depending on whether it's fair or not. Make it complex and we're stuck just voting on tax code depending on how emotionally somebody's speech appeals to us. We've found that while this will work for a few decades, it's not scalable over longer periods of time.