Levelthefield

Design a better income tax system. (under development)

Using published IRS data and other sources, creates a model of the income tax system in the US.

This mobile app explains the system and allows user to manipulate all the variables of brackets and rates on earned and unearned income to design a better system that raises the same amount of money.

Motivation

I wanted to try using text + small simulations as a way to illuminate a complex topic under the constraints of a mobile device. Here I think more about the user experience and what you need to do to get a user to keep engaged and move to the next page. Data stays local, the model exists in javascript but once a user creates a system it can go in a NOSQL database and shared. The version on the server is not current. The github code is connected to the development version.

I get most of my iphone software from the app store but have trouble with the imposed loyalty to the iconic company my itunes account represents. I think we would be better off not having to shop at the company store.

I also like the idea of writing software that runs on many platforms. I chose to go with JQuery-mobile and I look forward to the continued development of mobile frameworks for HTML5.