Politicians are routinely bought by those with narrow interests. By coincidence, Planet Money recently did a podcast about automatically filling out tax return

Politicians are routinely bought by those with narrow interests. By coincidence, Planet Money recently did a podcast about automatically filling out tax returns in California: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/episode-760-tax-hero http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/episo... tl;dr: In a pilot, 99% of people preferred the auto-filled returns, but the bill to make it law failed by one vote, because of Intuit and Grover Norquist.