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Old 10-15-2011, 08:15 PM   #237
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Originally Posted by classicman View Post
Loopholes ...
Loopholes.

Whenever any government carefully writes some policy or legislation, experts immediately comb through it to find how to use it in ways that were not originally intended.

Well, this is normal, and human self-interest, but they are abused to a ridiculous degree, and all politicians are very slow at moving to close them.

I guess this is the appeal to the "flat tax" idea, but I would expect that however that is written lobby groups would make sure there were still loopholes.
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