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Would you tax people based on the number of hours they worked? What about people who are not paid hourly, which would increase drastically unless you outlawed i

by jiggy2011 13y ago

Would you tax people based on the number of hours they worked? What about people who are not paid hourly, which would increase drastically unless you outlawed it. Then you have to define what counts as "work", does reading HN count towards your daily allowance since it is tangentially related to your work? What about reading documentation? Or is it only the hours you are typing code into an editor? All options seem undesirable when you take them to their logical conclusions.

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
>Would you tax people based on the number of hours they worked? Not me man, I have a job. I just said taxes because that seems like the favorite/most humane weapon of gov't with which to influence people. >All options seem undesirable when you take them to their logical conclusions. Such is the case for doing nothing as well, I believe.