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Originally Posted by JSH
We continue to use the tax code for social engineering because it is popular with the public.
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Even if the total taxation is still more expensive than it could be with a simpler regulation, people get happy when they think they "hacked" the system to pay fewer than they were supposed to. They may be even more screwed, but that feeling of "having taken an advantage" is enough for most of them. In Brazil it's known as "Gerson Law", because of some cigarettes advertisement featuring a soccer player named Gerson claiming to enjoy taking advantage on everything.