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They are not bugs, they are backdoors introduced on purpose. No one is forgetting how to close them, its on purpose.


To reach that conclusion for all of them, that none of these are bugs, you must think the legislature is much smarter than I think they are.

We can't write bug-free software even with unit tests and formal methods, what hope does a legislative body have? Debate before a law passes may be like code-review (and for big bills this debate is essentially "LGTM"), but most-to-all of the testing is in production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_case_(law)

This is not to say that no deliberate tax doges, they certainly do exist, but there's a lot of bugs too.




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