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> The complex tax code created by the government is the only reason they exist in the first place. it seems like you’re arguing complicated is what we deserve,
by toofy 3y ago
> The complex tax code created by the government is the only reason they exist in the first place.
it seems like you’re arguing complicated is what we deserve, while simultaneously arguing against people who want to make it easier where we can, because making it easier would somehow be a bad thing (and also somehow that more complicated is a net good because complicated means anticommunism?)
- dave333 3y agoNo - complex is what we have. I'm suggesting tax preparers offer a useful service and if government provides free tax prep it would be subsidized with higher taxes. Tax prep companies are no worse than insurance companies would you have the govt offer free insurance too? And free everything else while we are about it.
- toofy 3y agoif a thing can be done better and make our lives easier, yes, i absolutely think the government should. if we’re going to pay either way, through taxes or pay a corporation, i want whichever will make our lives better, i don’t particularly care which i pay. while i’m definitely skeptical of government, i’m absolutely just as skeptical of industry, billionaires, and corporations. in many instances where corporations have repeatedly proven their unwillingness to do something or repeatedly misled/broke our trust (eg, data abuse) or repeatedly failed to even do the thing, im completely and absolutely on board with just doing it ourselves (government).