> We don't want it. We don't want to "fix" our tax system -- we want low taxes and lots of deductions, and that is why we have them
You can have that without having to rely on third parties you pay for to get there. How exactly does a middleman help if the point is low taxes?
> We want cars. We want suburbs
Funnily that's in direction contradiction to your previous want. Suburbs and cars are much more expensive, therefore you have to pay more for them, either in taxes to pay for the useless infrastructure, or to pay for it directly.
> Also just remember that if we built a competent bureaucracy that enforced a nationwide ID system, it might be handed over to Donald Trump if he wins the next election, and he really could win
And how exactly would someone like Trump abuse an ID system?
> Funnily that's in direction contradiction to your previous want. Suburbs and cars are much more expensive, therefore you have to pay more for them, either in taxes to pay for the useless infrastructure, or to pay for it directly.
And yet we have the infrastructure. This is not a thought experiment. I am posting this comment from a house in the suburbs with high-quality roads and utility services, which we have managed to build despite our tax system.
So where is the contradiction? Clearly it's possible to live like this, because we do now, and we have done so for a very long time.
You can have that without having to rely on third parties you pay for to get there. How exactly does a middleman help if the point is low taxes?
> We want cars. We want suburbs
Funnily that's in direction contradiction to your previous want. Suburbs and cars are much more expensive, therefore you have to pay more for them, either in taxes to pay for the useless infrastructure, or to pay for it directly.
> Also just remember that if we built a competent bureaucracy that enforced a nationwide ID system, it might be handed over to Donald Trump if he wins the next election, and he really could win
And how exactly would someone like Trump abuse an ID system?