yeah,... it's a OT post but it's something of a issue of mine (and I'm sure many others)... I think our (USA) tax system is a joke! But... the reason I believe it continues is because overall it's something that we as a culture have allowed with little to no resistance. When I think of the tax code I think of a tangled bundle of fishing line with hooks every where...
FYI... this is a break down of the general system....
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At 0.40 cents per $100usd and at ~$9K per person,.. this is another reason they continue to exist. A FAIR system would have us ALL paying equally... but... many of us are paying 3X or more of that average.
As the world turns...... change > There is no lasting economic or other =A0viability without a moral/ > ethical base...
> =A0 debunkable as merely a respect for Life generally, and humanity,
> including oneself =A0(not to be mistaken for blind arrogance, thats > fatal)...
>
> A prerequisite to morality and ethics however is intelligence,
> Intelligence only occurs with abject honesty.
>
> Stepping though that in reverse, beginning with abject honesty, you
> can bail yourself out of a degraded condition.... pay your karmic and
> other debts and be graciously viable... (takes decades in my
> experience) ....Yer girl friend catching fish for you off the poop
> deck as you panay them in the galley...
>
> with a few hundred yards between you and the vicious morons =A0working
> for the IRS... who are now forced to give up globally .... =A0 =A0btw....
> their ruthlessness had indeed produced their desired result, no
> resistance,,, in fact the perfection of no resistance, =A0 =A0 death, >
> smart those folk.
>
> no money honey, and their attempts to collect from the collapsing
> economy merely destroying the last viable vestigages of their own
> interests, their own personal sit on their ass 'job' ..... and their
> own sit on their ass retirements....total wastes to the end.
>
> . pooooof.
>
> we had been discussing this eventuality for a while you know.
>
> Phil scott