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Vitalik Buterin
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Bleg for econ experts: why are nonlinear tax codes so popular, when you can totally make linearizing tax reforms progressivity-neutral?
Specifically, consider an income tax as on the left vs on the right. The two can easily be equivalent in revenue *and* net impact on Gini.
Linear tax codes are superior because marginal tax rate is independent of context, paving the way for simplification...
... the possibility of much more privacy-preserving tax collection (don't need to know who is buying/selling, just that the tx took place)
So... what is the standard econ argument for not immediately switching to this?
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1. Time for a brief tweetstorm on non-financial applications of blockchains. As blockchain scalability gets better and better, and UX improves and fees drop as a result, this will become a bigger and bigger part of the story.
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Fun fact about the "cashless society" in China: the government is actively opposing it.

Translation: "Refusing to accept cash is illegal. Protect the legal tender status of the RMB"
Here's an article (Chinese) that describes their reasoning: zmdnews.cn/showinfo-93-48… (unfortunately it's down as of this moment)
Important caveat: opposing at the present time, not in principle forever.
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