We have some strange way here in Germany when we create our laws. There are two things that are quite special about German mentality when it comes to creating laws.
The first thing is that most Germans are obsessed by the idea of creating perfect equality for everybody, especially themselves. I mean there is nothing wrong with egalitarianism in principle but most people here are so notorious about this idea that they _always_ find a point where they are discriminated.
The second thing is that most Germans think that they can fix disparity by adding exception rules to the existing laws. They don't understand that they just create _more_ disparity by inventing new exceptions instead of simplifying the rules to a level where they actually still can control the results of their changes somehow.
The result of all this is that we get more and more laws here. One of the most interesting things about this is that in 2000 it was said that about 60% of all publications worldwide related to tax laws was written in German language. (When I do my taxes I get the impression that this number is still increasing...) This leads to the paradox situation that the rich people that can afford paying a qualified tax advisor pay less taxes and the poor ones, the exceptions are designed for, often cannot make use of these exceptions because they are nor aware of them. Fortunately I am pretty sure they will invent yet another exception rule just to fix this problem...
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