poker tax 2
there's usually about a week between when i write a post and when it gets published. so let me anticipate the inevitable 'ur a dumbaas' replies to yesterday's post. poker is a zero sum game and taxes aren't. sorta. it is if you include the house. for all the players it's a negative sum game. cause they have to pay the house. the economy grows every year so it can't be a zero sum game. heh. true enough. i didn't say taxes are exactly like poker. heh. when you play poker do you intentionally concede pots to the guy who's winning cause he'll bring more players to the table? i'm betting uh lemme think here, uh, no. anywho, the argument has been made that people get unhappy and turn to crime because they perceive that the other guy has gots more stuffs dan day gots. i'll go with that. then it pretty much directly follows that it's irrelevant if the game is zero sum or not. the loser's gonna be pissed. unless of course, he never gets it.