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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Sure, but one can minimize the degree of social engineering by to the maximum extent possible eliminating specific exceptions and different treatment of income and expenses.
Reagan was reasonably successful at reducing the social engineering. But all the junk crept back in.
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Wasn't the choice of eliminating the various exemptions itself social engineering, since it shifted much of the tax burden down the economic scale? Which was, of course, the point and goal of supply-side economics.
