Faroe Islands is a tiny speck. Countries are a cross between oil tankers and nuclear power plants.
There's nothing to learn politicians have debated every single tax system known to human civilization. But even small changes are Herculean tasks.
There's nothing to learn politicians have debated every single tax system known to human civilization. But even small changes are Herculean tasks.
"It's easy for them to do, but we're a huge country with near-infinite resources, we couldn't possibly". I mean sure, it means you have to scale the operation to match, which is why the IRS has more staff than the Faroes have population. But "we can't take on these projects, we're too big" makes it sound like we should have expected Belgium to land on the moon instead of the US.
For example, what's the real difference between operating a fire department in a town on the Faroes, vs a town in the Mid-west? It seems like a fairly cookie-cutter operation where requiring more of them in total does not add complexity to each operation.
Possibly even the opposite, where the scale of the US turns into a net benefit, so you can support your own industries building and providing tenders/appliances - where the Faroes are (I assume) more likely to ship one from Germany.
So I'm not clear why taxation within a single state has to be more complex than taxation within a small nation. I'm not going to deny that it probably is, and probably will be, but I'm less comfortable with the assumption that it must be.