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While it's not solve the problem close to your heart, preventing monopolies and encouraging open access and competition is undoubtly good thing.

• Alupis 11y ago
  > preventing monopolies and encouraging open access and competition Sadly, this bill doesn't even do any of these things... It's essentially going to have the government make tax preparation software... and we already know they aren't good at making software. As another comment already suggested, private industry is far, far better at software than the government will ever be, and they are already capable of making simpler software - but the current incredibly complex tax code doesn't allow it. The software has to be complicated because it's dealing with a complicated tax code. But, anyone who's used TurboTax or HR Block et al, recently will attest to the simplicity of these programs already. Sure, it takes a long while to complete everything, but the most difficult part is gathering your affairs before sitting down. You essentially type data into the boxes the software tells you to. I recon no human being is capable of hand-filing taxes these days -- even the professional tax filing services are using this (and similar) software! The only way to make it less of a hassle, is to simplify the tax code.