Potjeh wrote:jorb wrote: my observation is that they are usually abused as a tool for social engineering rather than used for benign purposes.
Because you're only observing the problem cases. From what I see, most regulations are good. Like vast majority of criminal law, for example.
A lot of criminal law is nothing more than the ten commandments, but I agree that it is usually far better and much more well-defined. Criminal law (very) optimistically speaking takes up five percent of the Swedish code. It covers -- however -- the inverse of that in terms of the laws I consider necessary. The remaining 95 percent of the law is by and large bloat.
jorb wrote:There are currently so many exceptions in the tax code that it is unclear if there was ever a rule in it.
I consider this to be a huge problem. I don't even necessarily mind the taxes per se (I do, but that's not the main issue), what I mind is not being sure how much I should be taxed, and not being able to understand what rules apply. It is Kafkaesque and judicially unsafe. They could theoretically throw me in jail if I fuck up too much, and considering that the system is nigh on impossible to understand -- not to mention the fact that its minutes change from year to year -- I do not think that that is as it should be.
Again, how do they think that anyone without a university degree should be able to start a company? Is this as it should be? Tax me for 80% of what I earn if you absolutely must, but do it openly and with a single flat-tax and at one place. If they did that then there would have been a revolution a long time ago, which is why they have created this bureaucratic nightmare.
