simplification

Over the last few decades, confusion over the meaning of the term simplification appears to have become a second important obstacle to creating simpler tax laws.

Dean on Attractive Complexity: Tax Deregulation, the Check-the-Box Election and the Future of Tax Simplification 2006

Over the last few decades, confusion over the meaning of the term simplification appears to have become a second important obstacle to creating simpler tax laws.

May 2006 2006

That kind of simplification is the bane of newness.

The Myth of the Fall of the American Comic Book 2009

On language, simplification is only one thing we should have heated debates about.

Philip N. Cohen: Good Woman Child Language (Talking Characters in Taiwan) Philip N. Cohen 2010

Such simplification is at times useful, but "the problem arises when we begin to draw conclusions from succesful choices, assuming that what works once will work in every instance."

Narrative Strategies 2009

On language, simplification is only one thing we should have heated debates about.

Philip N. Cohen: Good Woman Child Language (Talking Characters in Taiwan) Philip N. Cohen 2010

I hope tax simplification is his #1 goal, as it appears to be Speaker Hastert's.

Domestic Policy Issues, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In the name of simplification, the Work and Pensions Secretary plans to raise the basic pension, eliminate the current multitiered system—and pay for it all by rolling back the personal retirement accounts that were first introduced by the Thatcher Government in 1987.

Burying Britain's Private Pensions 2011

On language, simplification is only one thing we should have heated debates about.

Philip N. Cohen: Good Woman Child Language (Talking Characters in Taiwan) Philip N. Cohen 2010

The bare beauty of the channelled whelk tells me that one answer, and perhaps a first step, is in simplification of life, in cutting out some of the distractions.

Monday Musing 2008