Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world
jaykrown@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The tax system and healthcare system are genuinely fucked in the US. Both could be simplified greatly and benefit people, but those in the small handful of decision making power to do benefit from keeping it complex. The IRS is spineless, and private health insurance is disgusting.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean, there are reasons the tax system is as complicated as it is. A big part is that the government does not agree on what the system should do.
One half (ish) wants a progressive tax system that applies more tax burden the higher your income and wealth are, and uses a bunch of different taxes (of various levels of progressiveness and regressiveness) to do it.
One half thinks any tax on anyone other than the poor is a sin.
Hard to reconcile those two positions, but it’s what got us here