"You know that Herman Cain was widely ridiculed for exactly this line of thought?"
What's your point? The current system is widely ridiculed, too. Hey, I'm ridiculing it now.
"It should be complicated to reflect the complications and nuances of our societies. Enough of us obviously think that there should be special cases for certain situations that special cases will arise."
I agree, special cases will arise. But I think we have to aggressively limit the number of those. I'm suggesting a way. If there is a hard limit on the length of the tax code, there will come a point when to add Special Case X, you have to delete Special Case Y.
Law is like code; indeed, it's called a legal code. One of the best predictors of how many bugs your code will have is simply how much code there is. Our legal code is massive bloatware, and it's buggy as heck.
What's your point? The current system is widely ridiculed, too. Hey, I'm ridiculing it now.
"It should be complicated to reflect the complications and nuances of our societies. Enough of us obviously think that there should be special cases for certain situations that special cases will arise."
I agree, special cases will arise. But I think we have to aggressively limit the number of those. I'm suggesting a way. If there is a hard limit on the length of the tax code, there will come a point when to add Special Case X, you have to delete Special Case Y.
Law is like code; indeed, it's called a legal code. One of the best predictors of how many bugs your code will have is simply how much code there is. Our legal code is massive bloatware, and it's buggy as heck.
Want a working tax code? Make it short.