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🧾 Income Tax Parade: 2D Simulation

Interactive 2D income-tax model (Pen's parade): drag bracket lines and rate knobs, see revenue, inequality, deadweight loss and the Laffer curve.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryPhysics & Mechanics

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsDrag bracket threshold lines vertically and rate knobs horizontally; sliders for four rates, allowance, thresholds, taxable-income elasticity, median income, inequality and Pareto tail; six policy presets, pause/step/reset, Laffer and Lorenz graphs.

tax lawprogressive taxLaffer curveincome inequalitydeadweight lossGini coefficient

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⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 2D model of progressive income tax on 400 households (Pen's parade): drag bracket lines and rate knobs and see revenue, Gini inequality, deadweight loss, behavioural response and the Laffer curve.

tax lawprogressive taxLaffer curveincome inequalitydeadweight lossGini coefficient

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install