> Even worse, you can't close those loopholes by adding more conditionals. By definition, you're only creating more optimization paths for them to choose from.

> Even worse, you can't close those loopholes by adding more conditionals. By definition, you're only creating more optimization paths for them to choose from. One thing they try are schemes like alternative minimum taxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_minimum_tax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_minimum_tax Computationally, they solve this problem. But, as far as tax terms, who knows.