Jim Hlavac
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We should simplify the tax code. This save money by eliminating tax
cheats and the energy put into doing the cheating, and catching the
cheaters.
Simplifying the tax code saves money and time on the part of
citizens who must pay the taxes. It would become fairer, and more
comprehensible. It will lessen the cynicism of the rich getting tax
breaks.
It will eliminate the absurdity of the thousands of conflicting rules
and regulations and deductions and schemes and ways to do things so
that no two IRS agents can give the same answer on the tax owed on
the same set of facts and figures.
The need to vastly simplify our tax codes to shut down the entire
corporate shenanigans industry no loopholes, no odd circumstance,
and then promote this simple tax system for countries that want to
trade with us.
Simple tax systems must necessarily be fairer. Bring more
compliance, hence better stability for governments and more peace.
They bring an easier exchange of trade. Less expenses in doing
taxes, thus more people doing more constructive stuff.
All the energy put into taxes here can now be applied overseas in
straightening out the rest of the world.
The problem of course in even beginning of talking about
simplifying the tax code is that the money collected from a multitude
of sources commingle and are then spit out a multiple of programs.
It's like a bow tie shape -- with the knot in the middle exactly that --
a knot where it's impossible to figure out what is really going on.
The cynic within us now says that this is done on purpose to
confuse people. But I don't think so. I think it happened organically
-- the centuries have shown good intentioned people seeing a
problem and proposing a program. Or seeing a situation and putting
some tax policy behind it. The complexity wasn't some nefarious
program by the "government" to dominate the people. It was the
result of a hundred individual decisions that over time built up, like a
coral reef, dense, mixed up, confused and incomprehensible in the
whole.
Of course, we always talk about taxes as if the programs they
support are so sacred that they can never be touched or changed, or
eliminated. You can always find enough people who can organize
themselves to defend this or that small program. Many, however,
should be eliminated.
cheats and the energy put into doing the cheating, and catching the
cheaters.
Simplifying the tax code saves money and time on the part of
citizens who must pay the taxes. It would become fairer, and more
comprehensible. It will lessen the cynicism of the rich getting tax
breaks.
It will eliminate the absurdity of the thousands of conflicting rules
and regulations and deductions and schemes and ways to do things so
that no two IRS agents can give the same answer on the tax owed on
the same set of facts and figures.
The need to vastly simplify our tax codes to shut down the entire
corporate shenanigans industry no loopholes, no odd circumstance,
and then promote this simple tax system for countries that want to
trade with us.
Simple tax systems must necessarily be fairer. Bring more
compliance, hence better stability for governments and more peace.
They bring an easier exchange of trade. Less expenses in doing
taxes, thus more people doing more constructive stuff.
All the energy put into taxes here can now be applied overseas in
straightening out the rest of the world.
The problem of course in even beginning of talking about
simplifying the tax code is that the money collected from a multitude
of sources commingle and are then spit out a multiple of programs.
It's like a bow tie shape -- with the knot in the middle exactly that --
a knot where it's impossible to figure out what is really going on.
The cynic within us now says that this is done on purpose to
confuse people. But I don't think so. I think it happened organically
-- the centuries have shown good intentioned people seeing a
problem and proposing a program. Or seeing a situation and putting
some tax policy behind it. The complexity wasn't some nefarious
program by the "government" to dominate the people. It was the
result of a hundred individual decisions that over time built up, like a
coral reef, dense, mixed up, confused and incomprehensible in the
whole.
Of course, we always talk about taxes as if the programs they
support are so sacred that they can never be touched or changed, or
eliminated. You can always find enough people who can organize
themselves to defend this or that small program. Many, however,
should be eliminated.