logoalt Hacker News

groundzeros2015yesterday at 2:36 PM1 replyview on HN

Are you arguing that we should have bad taxes because some taxes are good?


Replies

ceejayozyesterday at 2:38 PM

Yes, absolutely.

There's a cost to perfection. In our computing world, every extra nine of reliability is more expensive than the last, often with diminishing returns.

See also: Florida drug testing welfare recipients cost more than it saved. https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/just-we-suspected-fl...

show 1 reply