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by aaron-lebo 2237 days ago
The tax code is complex to a large degree due to the political process.

See Mayhew's Congress: The Electoral Connection, or literature on path dependency.

https://www.amazon.com/Congress-Electoral-Connection-David-M...

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Yes but those changes are going to be trivial compared to the arms race dynamic I described. The changes from political pressure are debated in one place, yearly by a small number of people, but the growth of anti-gaming regs are a defense against the innovations of 300 million filers.