A Michigan Man Underpaid His Property Taxes By $8.41. The County Seized His Property, Sold It—and Kept the Profits.

[rambo919]

I don't think it creates trust in a legal system.

You can make a really good legal argument against the judgement of an expert. You can't do that with a jury because they essentially look at feels.

Only an idiot would trust a legal system with so many laws and sublaws even lawyers struggle to understand it, the jury is not the problem.

 

[konfab]

Only an idiot would trust a legal system with so many laws and sublaws even lawyers struggle to understand it, the jury is not the problem.

I manage to wrangle an even worse and more illogical system every day in the land of web development and frameworks.

Lawyers are quite capable of doing it. There are of course problems with the laws that get written, but that is in the realm of politics. South Africa has a major problem with this as a fair chunk of our laws contain contradictions and inconsistencies due to the legal illiteracy of MPs.

 

[rambo919]

I manage to wrangle an even worse and more illogical system every day in the land of web development and frameworks.

Lawyers are quite capable of doing it. There are of course problems with the laws that get written, but that is in the realm of politics. South Africa has a major problem with this as a fair chunk of our laws contain contradictions and inconsistencies due to the legal illiteracy of MPs.

Having to work with the tax laws, this thing needs a complete re-work as it's reached the point of becoming incoherent, references to references that reference other things with definitions being the same kind of maze it's ridiculous.

Yes SA has also gone crazy with legislation in everything, the idea seems to be more useless laws will work as a band-aid for problems no one feels like actually tackling.

 

[Tokolotshe]

I manage to wrangle an even worse and more illogical system every day in the land of web development and frameworks.

Lawyers are quite capable of doing it. There are of course problems with the laws that get written, but that is in the realm of politics. South Africa has a major problem with this as a fair chunk of our laws contain contradictions and inconsistencies due to the legal illiteracy of MPs.

GDPR, POPIA?

 

[konfab]

Having to work with the tax laws, this thing needs a complete re-work as it's reached the point of becoming incoherent, references to references that reference other things with definitions being the same kind of maze it's ridiculous.

Yes SA has also gone crazy with legislation in everything, the idea seems to be more useless laws will work as a band-aid for problems no one feels like actually tackling.

Oh tax laws are an absolute dumpster fire in every country because of politics.


They should reduce the entire tax system to a 5 page document max.

But as Milton Friedman has pointed out, it will never happen.

 

[konfab]

GDPR, POPIA?

Those things are at least relatively fixed. They won't upgrade to new versions every month or so.