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Given that normies don't geneally understand tax brackets, I can understand not wanting to do more complex stuff either.

I don't know how many people I've heard express that they didn't want to move into the next tax bracket because they didn't want to pay that rate on their whole income, but it's a lot.

A very small minority are worried about hitting a ceiling that removes eligibility for important services, and some are worried about the weird phaseouts where marginal rates are very high, but most just don't understand.

Maybe that means having a more complicated system is fine because it's already incomprehensible to most, but I dunno.

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Tax brackets are very easy to explain, it doesn't even require math beyond basic arithmetics. You can draw a bunch of lines on paper and show how different slices are taken from each.

The problem is that the intuitive understanding doesn't line up with that, so that's what people have by default - and then we don't teach how it actually works as a basic skill! Sure, there's no shortage of explainers, but you need to be actually looking for them in the first place.

And the best way to teach that in school? Give students a small allowance that grows with each year, but they have to "pay taxes" on it to continue receiving it, complete with different brackets etc. I bet you that all the "normie" kids will figure it out in no time.