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Old 05-09-2016, 03:52 PM   #12
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Re: A couple of Wonks since the last board is closed for bidness

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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy View Post
I love the world of mythically idyllic tax code rewrites. I think it would be a good concept for a computer game, a sort of Oregon Trail kind of thing where if you write the right provisions you get steady economy growth distributed among the whole population and if you fuck up Donald Trump builds a tax-advantaged empire and takes all the little people's money at the casino.

We could call the game "Congress".
Given we were initially talking about getting to a flat tax, this is less mythically idyllic and more what we were aiming for. And this isn't about economic distribution. It's about everybody paying tax based on what they earn. What's wrong with that?
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