>>521218726
>Nobody ever proposes simplifying the tax code either. It's always more additions. A simple flat tax that everyone pays would sort out the mess of who is paying their "fair share" or not, where we get rid of all the special exemptions and just have did simple rates for everything. There's a reason for this: they can advertise high rates publicly to retards, while in private their army of accountants writes lots of things off, gets the exemptions. It's complicated by design, because the wealthy people are those that lobby the government to change it to be like this.

There are proposals but they never pass. Ben Carson proposd a flat tax rate in 2015 but those policies are never that popular.
Tax obscurantism is the best way, besides inflation, to increase the tax burden without normal people noticing. If you take the Laffer curve (>>521211588) you'd see an optimal point of revenue through tax, a point where either raising tax or lowering both would mean lowering revenue gathered. With obscure laws you extend the peak of the Laffer curve forward. If people and businesses don't realize how much they are being swindled they will continue to operate even at a loss because of stupidly complicated bookeeping.
The accountant at my company told me she was doing extra hours until she saw how much money she was losing to income tax. The extra hours pushed her to the next income tax bracket so her price per hour worked effectively dropped. Her extra hours started earning her less and less money so she said fuck it. She could contribute more to the economy but taxes made it not worth it.
My hope is that AI accountants will abstract away all the bs and tell workers and small businesses how to mazimize gains. If working 30h a week is the optimal strategy for tax then so be it. Fuck the state.