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So are we really going to go through the entire tax code and all of the potential use cases of median individuals, all so that we can conclude that the governme
by fridif 5y ago
So are we really going to go through the entire tax code and all of the potential use cases of median individuals, all so that we can conclude that the government needs to predict our deductions in advance so that you don't have to spend 1 hour and $39 per year filling out your info on TurboTax?
I'm tired of arguing with malicious people on the internet.
- danaris 5y agoI...what? No; under every actual proposal, people who have these complicated deductions and other specialized needs can still file exactly the way they do today so that they can get their taxes calculated properly. And making sure that >50% of Americans—in particular, the >50% who have the simplest taxes, which correlates highly with lower income—don't have to "spend 1 hour and $39 per year" with private companies to accomplish their legally mandated tax filing is a very good thing, even if it were to actually increase the inconvenience for the wealthy and complicated. Which, again, this wouldn't. So please put aside the ad hominem attacks, which I believe are against the HN guidelines anyway.
- fridif 5y agoSo paying $39 to a private company (not mandatory btw, you don't need to go with Intuit or TaxAct or HrBlock or etc), is evil incarnate... ...but the thousands of dollars my wife paid directly to the government two years ago for her green card application which still is not done is totally fine? If there was an Intuit for green cards, I would be camping outside to be the first to give them my money.