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I just don't like filling out the paperwork. It is like torture every year. I also dont particularly like the government keeping track of where everyone works.
by dec0dedab0de 8y ago
I just don't like filling out the paperwork. It is like torture every year. I also dont particularly like the government keeping track of where everyone works.
- pstuart 8y agoBear in mind that anti-tax groups, and other profiteers of inefficiency (Grover Norquist, Intuit, et. al) actively lobby to make paying taxes as painful as possible so you will hate paying taxes period. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
- bhawks 8y agoAlso bare in mind that it's not an accident that April 15 is approximately 6 months away from general elections in November (basically couldn't be further away). Politicians' campaigns would have a different spin if folks had just recently filed their taxes.
- acheron 8y agoHardly. If taxes were "as painful as possible" we wouldn't have automatic withholding. Right now almost everyone pays via automatic withholding so they never see the money in the first place, and the defaults are set so most people get a small refund. If you want to see "painful as possible", make people write a check for the full amount every April.
- pstuart 8y agoGrover Norquist's own words: "That’s the real reason the Left and the government class supports IRS-prepared tax returns: they want the government to be bigger, and that requires higher tax revenues. The fact that IRS tax preparation is understood by everyone to result in higher tax revenues exposes the conflict of interest that would be caused by IRS-prepared tax returns." From https://www.huffingtonpost.com/grover-norquist/grover-norquist-taxes_b_3005698.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/grover-norquist/grover-norqui... That argument is disingenuous at best.