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My argument isn’t that preparing a tax return is informative per se. Rather, it creates a time to reflect on the cost of taxes and their value proposition. For
by anon373839 3y ago
My argument isn’t that preparing a tax return is informative per se. Rather, it creates a time to reflect on the cost of taxes and their value proposition.
For similar reasons, companies prefer subscription pricing with auto-renewal. If customers had to look at a bill and manually pay it each month, more of them would realize they don’t need a particular service.
- piva00 3y agoInflicting pain to create reflection? I don't think that's the best way to achieve what you propose. It just creates a lot of wasted effort across the whole population, people can't decide to stop paying taxes like a subscription if they so want to, the only power they have is to vote some people in that might (or might not) change the taxation based on their platforms, that's basically powerless and you support creating friction and inflicting pain in those individuals every single year with a loft notion that people will stop and reflect about what they are paying. They won't, they will just hate filing taxes, while being on the hook if they send the IRS the wrong figure (which they already know about), it's simply insane that the USA does not provide pre-filled tax forms like so many other developed economies.
- zardo 3y ago> Rather, it creates a time to reflect on the cost of taxes and their value proposition. Create time? It uses up my time, leaving less time for reflecting on public policy, or anything else.