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I'm not following you. I'm not sure if you're advocating a fixed percentage or some kind of logarithmic tax rate based on how much income you earn. If the later, then the changing cost of living dictates what most people deem to be acceptable tax rates and prevents it from not changing constantly.

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It's like demanding that people encrypt their communications with ROT13. That request is fundamentally broken. A system that does not work, and can impossibly work, cannot be part of morality. Hence, it cannot be immoral to dodge such request. It is simple. The specs are f*cked. So, there is no point in implementing them, because you can see upfront that the program will not work anyway.

It's not at all like that, unless you have found a way in which people encrypting their communications with ROT13 can keep the society running. Enjoy your excuse for tax avoidance :)

FYI, tax avoidance is different to tax evasion. I'm not sure why someone would need an 'excuse' for the former - it's the latter that's illegal.

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