Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?

From unicorn@schloss.li Fri May  3 23:23:21 1996

	Accounting costs as a result of a deduction based,
	multi-tiered, progressive, and supplimented system of income
	taxation are silly.

By the way, the IRS (in spite of it's shortcomings) is (by far) the
most efficient tax collecting organization among the major economic
powers.  It costs roughly $0.50 per $100 collected.  Canada is second
at about $1, Germany (for instance) is at about $7, mostly because they
don't have payroll deductions.

/jordan

On Sat, 4 May 1996, Jordan Hayes wrote:

> 	From unicorn@schloss.li Fri May  3 23:23:21 1996
> 
> 	Accounting costs as a result of a deduction based,
> 	multi-tiered, progressive, and supplimented system of income
> 	taxation are silly.
> 
> By the way, the IRS (in spite of it's shortcomings) is (by far) the
> most efficient tax collecting organization among the major economic
> powers.  It costs roughly $0.50 per $100 collected.  Canada is second
> at about $1, Germany (for instance) is at about $7, mostly because they
> don't have payroll deductions.

An organization that is efficent at enforcing a immensely complex set of
regulations incomprehensible to joe sixpack is not a good thing.

Recall also that the IRS enforces the rules and intrepretations that it
predominately creates.

Our discussion is about the costs born by the citizen, I don't much care
how much the IRS is getting paid for its services.

> 
> /jordan
> 

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