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Imagine if income tax made sense!

I'm in Canada so I don't know how US tax filing works.

I just finished completing Canadian returns for myself & wife. I'm extremely frustrated & angry at how complex and confusing it is. I'd like to make all members of the government and its bureaucracy manually complete their own tax returns; preferably within a monitored time limit of, let's say, one hour - on pain of dismissal.

Why don't we have a simple & rational system of income tax? It's an absurd folly, using the tax system to incentivize/discourage activities & lifestyles instead of using subsidies, legislation or regulation to do so.
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I'd accept double the complexity if I didn't have to work for the government for half the year
Really · 80-89, M
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEPWhat proportion of your work/earnings do you think should go towards maintaining the government-organized infrastructure and services that we all use? How would you measure that?
@Really We can start doing a sanity check on that, comparing for how long I work for the government, vs:
-The guys who built my house
-Grocery stores
-Internet
-Streaming services
-Even the oil companies take well less from me that the epitome of inefficiency
Really · 80-89, M
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP Sanity check sounds like a good idea 😆