>and it feels more like theft than a "trade for civilization" as some like to put it, because I know that it doesn't cost that much.
And ironically enough, it costs money to figure out how to optimize budgets and labor. So your tax minimization is just ensuring that the government always performs the greedy algorithm instead of focusing on a proper traversal of the problem. It's a death spiral.
Also, we can never really say how much something costs. Most funds for taxes go to welfare. Guess what the classic conservative economic administration always targets...
And ironically enough, it costs money to figure out how to optimize budgets and labor. So your tax minimization is just ensuring that the government always performs the greedy algorithm instead of focusing on a proper traversal of the problem. It's a death spiral.
Also, we can never really say how much something costs. Most funds for taxes go to welfare. Guess what the classic conservative economic administration always targets...