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Re:You Can't Engineer Around Taxes by saraid216 on Monday June 11, 2012 @02:02AM (#4093396)
Since we're drawing weird analogies with technology platforms anyways,

Refactor refactor refactor. Sure, tech companies have the grand luxury of having fewer stakeholders to be accountable to, but surely it's possible to refactor, refine, and reduce the tax code every so often?

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Re:You Can't Engineer Around Taxes by einhverfr on Monday June 11, 2012 @10:45AM (#4094847)
The problem is getting the politicians to give up their favorite features in the process of removing these bugs. ;-)
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Re:You Can't Engineer Around Taxes by saraid216 on Monday June 11, 2012 @12:21PM (#4095397)
Indeed.

To drag the analogy further, the politicians are being engineers of the tax code when they should really be its product owners. Should politicians really be responsible for the minutiae of how many numbers to put where, or should they simply give higher-level directives, such as "incentivize alternative energy"?

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