badgenome on 15 August 2011
| HappySqurriel said: I know you're joking, but I suspect the massive resistance to a flat tax scheme is that it makes it much more difficult to bribe people or buy votes ... |
Yeah, I completely agree. Since transparency is anathema to the political class, the absolute best way to avoid transparency while still pretending to be all for it is to make everything so maddeningly complicated that no sane person would even bother trying to figure it out.
