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Re:Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016 by matt_wulfeck on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:41PM (#14168751)
Sounds like reasonable policy but incredibly obtuse. All taxpayers should be able to calculate and file their own taxes. The more complicated the easier to game and manipulate.

I'll go as far as to say simplicity should be the driving motivation, not equality.

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Re:Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016 by Fomite on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:16PM (#14169054)
This proposal, given it can be described in a single HN post, is vastly simpler than the present tax code. It would similarly be trivial to make a calculator for this and present it on the IRS site for those who don't feel like calculating it.
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Re:Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016 by hsod on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:50PM (#14168853)
The proposed system seems a whole lot simpler than the existing one to me.
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Re:Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016 by enthdegree on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:10PM (#14169006)
It's implemented as a literal table lookup anyway, so it wouldn't be any different from the taxpayer's standpoint.
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