{"id":35258,"date":"2017-03-12T19:22:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T02:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/a-libertarian-transhumanists-take-on-the-future-of-taxes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:39","slug":"a-libertarian-transhumanists-take-on-the-future-of-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/a-libertarian-transhumanists-take-on-the-future-of-taxes","title":{"rendered":"A Libertarian Transhumanist\u2019s Take on the Future of Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My new article for Psychology Today on my federal audit and the coming day of eliminating taxes because of technology.<\/p>\n

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With all that in mind\u2014and the $7500 they say I owe them\u2014they know I wouldn\u2019t hire an accountant at $150 an hour to deal with the thousand-plus receipts, payments, and supposed car log entries I made last year\u2014since the amount I\u2019d spend on an accountant in the San Francisco Bay Area might easily end up more than $7500. They also surely know I won\u2019t do it myself, since it\u2019s definitely not worth my own time.<\/p>\n

They have me in a pickle\u2014even though it\u2019s more than obvious my busy self probably has far more in write-offs than I even bothered to report in the first place. In fact\u2014given how perturbed I feel at the IRS and its 82,000<\/a> full time employees this moment, if it was just economical, I\u2019d re-file to get more of my earnings back. But in the twisted game they created in their 74,000+ page tax code<\/a>, it\u2019s not worth it.<\/p>\n

Their way of operating has made me suspect one of their main algorithms on whether to audit people resembles mafia morality<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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