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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by nkrisc on Friday February 21, 2020 @08:31AM (#22382904)
Looked into NIT a little, and as I understand it, it could basically be a linear function where Y=0 when X (income) is, for the sake of example, $40,000 yearly. Then anyone over that pays increasing income tax while anyone below receives increasing amount of money from the government instead?

Apart from whether linear actually makes sense or not in the real world.

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Re:Suspicious Discontinuities by kazagistar on Friday February 21, 2020 @10:28AM (#22383764)
It doesn't have to be linear, that's just the easiest model to visualize and understand it just should be smooth enough in a way that ensures no discontinuity.
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