Mathematically elegant progressive taxation

 

Writing fiction often gives us opportunities to explore different ways the world might be. I devised a tax system for the Terlaroni that suits their social-democratic and mathematically-minded approach to the world... and discovered that it actually seems like a pretty good idea.

The current US tax system is progressive, but not very much. We still require people below the poverty level to pay taxes, capital gains rates are much lower than ordinary income rates, and there is basically...