A profoundly unrealistic tax law that, even if it were feasible, most people wouldn't have even tried to obey, anyway?
It would have only served to underscore just how out of touch the political class is, and to remind Americans that priority #1 is squeezing us for every cent possible without causing a riot. With the right spin from the smaller government crowd, perhaps, if it had lasted, it would have done more good than ill?
I guess I'm among the minority, though, in preferring more rapid oppression to the baby steps that our government is so good at. The boiling frog, etc.
My only disappointment is that I was hoping to get in on the software market that would have been required to track all of this nonsense. It was a gift in that regard.
I've talked about this quite a bit in the tax industry, and there are a few popular opinions. My favorite so far is that this was designed to fail to show just how bad our tax code can get, which would then be used to usher in simplification/reform, i.e., VAT.
A profoundly unrealistic tax law that, even if it were feasible, most people wouldn't have even tried to obey, anyway?
It would have only served to underscore just how out of touch the political class is, and to remind Americans that priority #1 is squeezing us for every cent possible without causing a riot. With the right spin from the smaller government crowd, perhaps, if it had lasted, it would have done more good than ill?
I guess I'm among the minority, though, in preferring more rapid oppression to the baby steps that our government is so good at. The boiling frog, etc.