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J.K. Lund's avatar

Nothing is certain, save for death and taxes. 100 percent agreed with you Micah. There is simply no reason to further "complexify" an already unfathomably complex tax code.

At this point, it doesn't appear that anyone has the gumption to do what is necessary and set the code on fire and start anew.

We best ought to begin moving to consumption taxation and reducing tax on production. A VAT would be a good place to start, alongside an LVT. Simpler administration, harder to evade, and more economically efficient on several fronts.

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Tian Wen's avatar

The question is, why is the tax code getting more complicated? If you were to poll people and ask them whether they want a simpler or a more complex code, everyone would choose the former.

This reminds me of the situation in universities. If you had asked people 40 years ago whether universities should hire more professors or more administrators, of course they’d all said more professors! Yet here we are.

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