From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 10:40:49 +0800
To: Jordan Hayes <jordan@Have.You.Seen.My.Infomercial.COM>
Subject: Re: CryptoAnarchy: What's wrong with this picture?
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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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