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Why hasn't anyone called Carter a Traitor yet?
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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Before I agree with you there, and I tend to, I have to ask... Do you think initially the tax code grew because of people gaming the system or because of its own tendencies toward creating red tape and finding new ways to squeeze money out of people? I sometimes wonder which came first and started the whole mess.
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When people create complexity in the tax code, I think they either ignore the transaction costs for users and administrators, or on some level think that the complexity validates their existence.
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