May 30, 2025
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Tax Code
By Thomas Kolbe
Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is making its way through Congress. What sounds like it was pulled from a kindergarten politics workshop might just mark the return of the United States as the true "Land of the Free."
A confession up front: I’m a traditionalist and I am German. I value the professional dullness that used to define politics. I’ve always been bothered by politicians who, after pushing a bill through, give it names that sound like bedtime stories: “Good Daycare Law,” or “Good Workplace Safety Act.” This infantilism defies satire. It feels like mocking children.
All that remains is a bad taste and the quiet question of how our tax dollars are being used. Still, there’s no need to return to the Prussian tradition of bureaucratic word monsters like “Beef Labeling Supervision Task Transfer Law” or the even more arcane “Ordinance on the Transfer of Authority for Real Estate Transaction Approvals.” (Please imagine these names in German as a single word each...) These name-beasts offer a glimpse into the abyss of German bureaucracy. Perhaps it’s time for a pragmatic solution: number laws. At least then, some arithmetical dignity would remain when their content amounts to little more than waving red cards at the sovereign citizen.
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