This
article argues that bureaucracy and regulations will expand to the level that automation enables:
We know this because in 2007 the tax office's internal budget was AU 11.4 billion, or 1.23% of GDP. In 1955 it performed essentially the same task without automation for A (pound) 66.7 million which was 1.33% of the 1955 GDP.
In the same time the number of pages of legislation to do with taxes rose from 1,300 pages to 15,000 pages. The added complexity of the tax code was consumed by increased automation in the tax office which is reflected in its budget. It seems to me this could be broken down by its IT budget and I would not be surprised if there is still an analogy there. The article continues:
We now see why it is so critical to society that software projects fail. The boundless creativity of politicians and bureaucrats to develop new and more complex regulation is bounded only by the bureaucracy's inability to implement them. The absolute size of the bureaucracy is constrained by external factors, so the only effect of automation can be to increase bureaucratic complexity.
It would simply not have been feasible to implement the Superannuation Co-Contribution scheme in 1955, but automation had made it possible in 2001. Fortunately for society most tax office software projects have also failed, so the act and regulations have been limited to 15,698 pages. But imagine if all the projects had succeeded? We might need to deal with well over 150,000 pages of regulations, and society would be in danger of collapsing under their weight.
It has been known that the
pages of federal legislation have been increasing each year. However, looking at those graphs it expanded rapidly in the 1970s, but this was at the same time as Whitlam started expanding the scope of the federal government. Additionally the vertical tax imbalance was firmly established with WWII and the federal government had by this time become the main and dominant source of taxation.
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This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
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Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
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Who Is Cam Riley
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
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