“On becoming an adult, one thing has stuck out to me as a huge oversight in the high school system is that we never learnt about tax. […] I'm not even talking about the logistics of filing tax returns, but on what taxes are, the different types of tax, and how they work.”
— Teaching Tax in School, Herman Martinus
I agree with Herman.
High school taught me a few things about the mating rituals of fruit flies, but nothing about taxes or how the system we live in works.
I had tangential thoughts to that since moving to the US a decade ago:
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