In the 2004 and 2006 election cycle, Intuit donated substantially more to Republicans than Democrats: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000026667

In the 2004 and 2006 election cycle, Intuit donated substantially more to Republicans than Democrats: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000026667 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000026667 Bush campaigned on (among other things) rewriting and simplifying the tax code. Bush's executive order pushing that forward was signed January 2005: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13369 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13369 Maybe Intuit's donations and lobbying were not caused by that, but doesn't it seem really strange that a popular initiative suddenly changed direction after a big pile of money was given to Republicans? Politicians shouldn't be willing to change their stance for money. It's as much Intuit's fault as it is the people that took the money.