• otp@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Four for the middle class, two for the lower class, and one for the upper class who don’t pay their accountants* enough.

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    1 month ago

    I think we all agree that if you’re willing to fuck over large portions of the general public, like he did down there in Argentina, you can probably cut some costs. That approach comes with some risks, because the general public might not like it when you show them how you actually feel, and of course it would make you a terrible human being and disastrous leader.

    And hey, having a simpler tax system always sounds good, and in many cases it probably would be good, but there’s a limit to the simplicity because people will find ways to game the system, and when they do so, either you shrug your shoulders or you make your tax laws more complex to deal with it.

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    1 month ago

    Just 6? Surely Argentina’s already broken economy can not survive with so little tax revenue sources? I’m no economist but the only way I can see this even remotely working is if the rates of those 6 taxes are raised expectionally high.