Not all taxes are arbitrary. You can't argue that taxes on natural resources are arbitrary. Take mineral resources as an example. I think it's very difficult to find the idea of taxing the use of these resources as absurd in a similar fashion to those presented by this article. Same can be said about radio spectrum.
If we applied the same philosophy to land, we'd need much fewer "arbitrary" tax types and percentages.
Our tax systems are indeed deeply flawed and arguing that any system is arbitrary and equally absurd/paradoxical/inefficient is incorrect since there are examples of ethical (and I would argue necessary) taxes.
> You can't argue that taxes on natural resources are arbitrary.
We can swap the Income Tax for an Air Tax if that helps, air is a resource. Charge by lung capacity. Big fellas do tend to make more money so it'd probably be a rough proxy for wealth and class I expect.
Resource taxes:
* Disincentive producing resources.
* Are still arbitrary.
Fundamentally what a tax is recognising is that Entity A did the work, but Entity B should decide who gets the fruit of that work. There is no acknowledgement that Entity A might be better than B at deciding what to do, or mechanism to test it, or even really a jury to decide it in practice (in theory the legislators could, but frankly I don't think any of the legislative bodies I'm aware of could tackle that sort of micromanagement). We don't even have consensus on what value system we should use to decide which entity was going to make a better decision even if we have perfect information about both hypothetical resource allocations. It is all ultimately arbitrary.
Even the no-tax pure free market solution is arbitrary, the argument in favour of it is it has the incentive structure that results in the most production, and big picture history suggests that maximising production will get best overall living standards. But it is clearly arbitrary, people love to point out the wild wealth differences between people who seem pretty similar except for minor differences.
These are not academic or theoretical concerns, this stuff is the meat of most of the big political debates that rage on.
Calling some of those taxes does distort the reality a little - a natural resources tax for example is really the state selling the resource owned by the state to a third party (which makes not "taxing" it even more offensive to effectively corrupt).
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Key highlights:
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It's not "perception". Recent studies have shown that about half the Romanians in the Netherlands are here illegally, and most of those are criminals. And those that are here legally don't always work under legal conditions.
This royally sucks for Romanian developers that want to work here, because despite being EU members they still need a work permit. The government basically assumes that the odds of Romanians coming here with good intentions are pretty low.
This guide is nice as it provides a short introduction into Angular's features.
I would kindly recommend you to read the Conceptual Overview section of the AngularJS Developer Guide (http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/concepts). This covers the heart of the framework and also parts of its philosophy. If you want to understand WHY AngularJS works the way it does not only WHAT it does then this page will really help you. You will also understand why this is a masterpiece of engineering.
Maybe it would also be interesting to have phones with e-ink displays on its sides, for things such as notifications, weather conditions and phone status.
Maybe you would be interested in watching a discussion between the leaders of these two projects. I think Dart shouldn't be dismissed as a "ridiculous" ambition. I would also like to point out that Dart compiles to JavaScript the same way as TypeScript, so your remark regarding replacing the JavaScript runtimes in all browsers is an exaggeration
