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Many Republicans have signed Grover Norquist's pledge, and he explicitly opposes making it easier to file taxes on the belief that doing so would make it easier

Many Republicans have signed Grover Norquist's pledge, and he explicitly opposes making it easier to file taxes on the belief that doing so would make it easier to raise taxes in the future.

mensetmanusman 4y ago
TurboTax has already made it easier to file taxes, so the cat is out of the bag. Maybe Norquist didn’t know what computers are capable of.
- Larrikin 4y ago
  Needing to do your taxes at all on TurboTax is the whole point of the argument. It's a yearly annoyance everyone has to do AND often times you have to pay money to a company. Where in many countries you just get something in the mail already done for you since the government has the information already for most people. You can still file yourself if you want to amend something or have a special reason. That's how it should work.
- undersuit 4y ago
  Then why do I still dread doing my taxes every year? I literally only have a W-2 to file and I don't know why.
  - ryandrake 4y ago
    My tax return was 20 pages last year, and I expect it to be longer this year because I sold/bought a home. Tax return software does make it easier, but it's still not easy, and there's a good reason that everyone dreads it, even if they just have W-2 information.
    - undersuit 4y ago
      OK, my taxes have to be hard to process because other people occasionally have hard to process taxes. That makes sense. Fair is fair; when people are struggling we make the entire country feel the same pain.
    - kelnos 4y ago
      Right, but the IRS likely already knows all the information that goes on those 20 pages (or at least most of it), and could prepare your return for you, and just send you an email that lets you approve or amend it.
neilv 4y ago
> explicitly opposes ... on the belief Do we know that's a truly-held belief by this politician, or do we only know that it's an assertion or claim?
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Many Republicans have signed Grover Norquist's pledge, and he explicitly opposes making it easier to file taxes on the belief that doing so would make it easier to raise taxes in the future.

mensetmanusman 4y ago

TurboTax has already made it easier to file taxes, so the cat is out of the bag. Maybe Norquist didn’t know what computers are capable of.

Larrikin 4y ago
Needing to do your taxes at all on TurboTax is the whole point of the argument. It's a yearly annoyance everyone has to do AND often times you have to pay money to a company. Where in many countries you just get something in the mail already done for you since the government has the information already for most people. You can still file yourself if you want to amend something or have a special reason. That's how it should work.
undersuit 4y ago
Then why do I still dread doing my taxes every year? I literally only have a W-2 to file and I don't know why.
- ryandrake 4y ago
  My tax return was 20 pages last year, and I expect it to be longer this year because I sold/bought a home. Tax return software does make it easier, but it's still not easy, and there's a good reason that everyone dreads it, even if they just have W-2 information.
  - undersuit 4y ago
    OK, my taxes have to be hard to process because other people occasionally have hard to process taxes. That makes sense. Fair is fair; when people are struggling we make the entire country feel the same pain.
  - kelnos 4y ago
    Right, but the IRS likely already knows all the information that goes on those 20 pages (or at least most of it), and could prepare your return for you, and just send you an email that lets you approve or amend it.

neilv 4y ago

> explicitly opposes ... on the belief Do we know that's a truly-held belief by this politician, or do we only know that it's an assertion or claim?

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