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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 07:14 AM
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64. You are mixing up two things
Edited on Wed Jul-20-05 07:32 AM by dsc
Simplicity and progressivity. The reason taxes are complicated are all the deductions and exemptions that are written into law, none of which have an iota to do with progressivity. The rates are taken care of by the table in the back of the book. In any case they only covert a linear function into a piecewise linear function which is no harder to calculate (basicly you do the same type of formula three times instead of once and add the results). I think there is a legitimate case to be made for getting rid of many deductions but that is seperate from progressivity.

On edit: If you wonder what a piecewise linear function looks like print a v or a w on your paper, both are piecewise linear fucntions.
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