You're implying that everyone who is not paying what a government tax board thinks you should be paying is guilty before proven innocent.
But if you've dealt with tax agencies beyond being a plain employee, they can often be just plain wrong, and you have to go through a lot of time, money and effort to prove that they are wrong, with them potentially just confiscating your bank account until proven wrong. Or your accountant / payroll provider has screwed up and now you have to go through a lot of bullshit to fix that problem, because YOU are ultimately on the hook.
More cops on the road doesn't necessarily mean more 'crime' is solved, it also means there is more cases of police brutality. If you're a small business, you don't have nearly as much strength to defend yourself. The large and rich will always have that ability, as it has been shown for 1000s of years of human history.
If a society 'arrests' every perceived jaywalker (whether or not they were jaywalking), and then pressured into a guilty plea deal because fighting it is worse than the price of the plea deal, is that really good for society? This is what I meant by the double edged sword of increased budgets for tax agencies.
But if you've dealt with tax agencies beyond being a plain employee, they can often be just plain wrong, and you have to go through a lot of time, money and effort to prove that they are wrong, with them potentially just confiscating your bank account until proven wrong. Or your accountant / payroll provider has screwed up and now you have to go through a lot of bullshit to fix that problem, because YOU are ultimately on the hook.
More cops on the road doesn't necessarily mean more 'crime' is solved, it also means there is more cases of police brutality. If you're a small business, you don't have nearly as much strength to defend yourself. The large and rich will always have that ability, as it has been shown for 1000s of years of human history.
If a society 'arrests' every perceived jaywalker (whether or not they were jaywalking), and then pressured into a guilty plea deal because fighting it is worse than the price of the plea deal, is that really good for society? This is what I meant by the double edged sword of increased budgets for tax agencies.