Tax laws are complex for a reason: they're primarily designed to galvanize the growth of complicated exception-handling on top of an obviously simple percentage calculation -- and technicize such into a multi-million-dollar industry. #err#tax#laws#complexity
This means they inevitably become progressively more error-prone and arbitrary, and evolve beyond the comprehension of even smart tax attorneys and acountants.
Side effect: challenges to the system are effectively mitigated.
the complexity of understanding the "web stack" is incidental; the compelxity of understanding the concept of distributed computing and comms protocols is fundamental.
or something as simple as rendering bits to the screen. raster? vector? what abstraction do you choose to execute the display mechanism. now you have a model.