Paul Fixes the Tax System. And other dangerous ideas about money and the common good (en Inglés) - Paul Stokstad

What if the tax system wasn't broken by accident?

What if it evolved, over centuries, into a sprawling machine optimized less for fairness than for complexity, loopholes, prestige, and power?

And what if it could be redesigned?

In Paul Fixes the Tax System: And Other Dangerous Ideas About Money and the Common Good, a historically minded citizen named "Paul" steps into one of civilization's largest and most bewildering machines and asks a question that refuses to go away:

Why do billionaires sometimes pay lower effective tax rates than teachers?

From Sumerian grain taxes and Roman roads to offshore tax havens, carried interest loopholes, and the modern "buy, borrow, die" strategy, this book traces the strange history of taxation as both a tool of civilization and a battleground of power.

But this is not merely a critique.

It is also a proposal.

Blending economic history, political philosophy, behavioral psychology, corporate governance, and civic imagination, the book introduces a bold framework called Public Benefit Capitalism:

Along the way, the book explores:

Part history, part systems analysis, part civic manifesto, Paul Fixes the Tax System argues that the future of capitalism may depend on whether societies can redirect ambition, prestige, and wealth toward the common good before institutional trust collapses completely.

Provocative, humorous, historically grounded, and deeply ambitious, this is a book for readers of , , , and who are ready to rethink the relationship between money, power, taxes, and civilization itself.