Re:How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently
by antman on Saturday July 05, 2025 @05:33PM
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They are not bugs, they are backdoors introduced on purpose. No one is forgetting how to close them, its on purpose.
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Re:How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently
by ben_w on Sunday July 06, 2025 @05:55AM
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To reach that conclusion for all of them, that none of these are bugs, you must think the legislature is much smarter than I think they are.
We can't write bug-free software even with unit tests and formal methods, what hope does a legislative body have? Debate before a law passes may be like code-review (and for big bills this debate is essentially "LGTM"), but most-to-all of the testing is in production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_case_(law)
This is not to say that no deliberate tax doges, they certainly do exist, but there's a lot of bugs too.