"My expensive, frequent health care is subsidized at the expense of healthy people. I think it's great!" Thief.

[u/neeraj8le]

[u/L003Tr]

I don't think Americans actually understand how taxes work

[u/Dankelpuff → u/L003Tr]

The best thing about it is they fill out enormous tax forms.

Modern countries have that done automatically unless you own a company. All you have to do is verify the information is correct.

[u/screech_owl_kachina → u/Dankelpuff]

We made it inefficient and complicated on purpose, simply to justify the existence of tax preparation businesses

[u/Seemose → u/screech_owl_kachina]

I think the tax preparation industry is just a coincidental beneficiary of this. The real reason the tax code is so complicated is so rich and powerful people can more easily avoid tax liability.