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  • $\begingroup$ ...the coin has no small or high denominations, its just always 'one'. Really? So everyone need only pay a penny? That's not a tax that would fund much, so I assume its only value is because the government doesn't trust the tax collector/census taker to count. And you can trust that it's cheaper to pay the penny than to make the effort to hide anyone. O'course, if you really want to lampoon the system, ignore whether or not anyone hides and write in the idea that people compete to give up the smallest possible coin - even going to far as to divide and clip coins to find the smallest. $\endgroup$ Commented yesterday
  • $\begingroup$ One notes that if the coin is not trivial in value, you may have to finesse if you don't want parents to kill their children to avoid the tax. China found that they had to exempt children under five to avoid that. $\endgroup$ Commented 13 hours ago