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On 4/7/13 9:40 PM, David Lee wrote: > Totally agree, abuse of bureaucracy would be so much easier without > those schemas forcing you to be creative. Taxes are the classic "There Is No Alternative" argument here. Are you really sure you want to use it? If there's a precautionary tale where "everyone should pay the same, for X definition of same" has evolved to take on mythical levels of complexity, abuse in many forms, and mega-industries built to support all of those opportunities, it's taxes. The abuse companies and individuals apply to their own workings to (legally) twist themselves and their data into a form that (efficiently) fits those structures is a cost we never even calculate. We depend on those mammoth bureaucracies to make things work, but despite frequent bursts of frustration about their many costs, the situation generally improves only marginally, and the number of data structures grows rapidly. There are a few taxes that are simple, but the system overall is not, and even their maintainers have a hard time keeping up. To take a non-US example from a source you may have heard of, see: <https://plus.google.com/101217859889524171793/posts/ikd183Q7ETK> We haven't even gotten to the vexing question of how much people should pay in taxes - just the form. > It would be really awesome if in he US I Didn't have to fill in those > tax forms precisely and could just supply whatever data in whatever > form I wanted, especially if I could skip those pesky constraints > about how to calculate how much I owe. You certainly can lie on tax forms, and people do. The validation of that data is less about the form and more about redundant collection of data from an ever-growing number of perhaps independent sources. If they all line up, then the data that happens to be in the form is likely true, or close enough. Validating the calculation is about the simplest smallest piece of the puzzle, though it's certainly a place where people make mistakes. Thanks, -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/
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