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Old Jul 9, 2009 | 12:40 pm
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Originally Posted by cparekh
As someone who teaches public economics at the graduate level, I am astounded that many on this board are more thoughtful about the nuances of our income tax system than top-level graduate student who go on to design parts of this system.
I'm not astounded at all. After all, these are the people who go on to design parts of the system, as you said. It had to get the way it did somehow

My Ph.D. is in EE, so I don't like arcane complexity as much. Hmmm...it's a wonder, then, why I find this whole AAdvantage thing interesting...

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