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Musk Says He's 'Deleted' Popular Free IRS Tax Filing Program

63 points by standardUser 2y ago

wnevets 2y ago
You just know Musk defenders having been going through some serious cognitive dissonance the last few months.
- basementcat 2y ago
  The human mind is capable of amazing feats of mental gymnastics.
  - wnevets 2y ago
    And instead of admitting they were wrong they will dig in even deeper.
  - 77pt77 2y ago
    A non functioning one even more so.
mullingitover 2y ago
The only people who are opposed to making it easier to file taxes are: * People who profit from the complicated mess that is the current system * Anarchists who simply wish to burn the entire system of government to the ground, presuming that they'll become successful regional warlords
Terr_ 2y ago
Alternate headline: "Republicans congress to destroy Free IRS tax filing option." Congress is the sole check on this crazy power-grab by the President, refusing to act is complicity, and the public deserves to know the causes behind the damage. Musk is culpable but by no means uniquely culpable.
noltncy 2y ago
https://www.irs.gov/filing/irs-free-file-do-your-taxes-for-free https://www.irs.gov/filing/irs-free-file-do-your-taxes-for-f... The program is now open. I think Elon meant ‘deleted the team’.
- readyplayernull 2y ago
  Same as happened to Twitter?
XajniN 2y ago
It will not be needed if there is no income tax.
hnburnsy 2y ago
>President Trump’s “special government employee,” Elon Musk, announced on Monday that he has dissolved the Internal Revenue Service’s free file program, effectively firing the staff who worked on the popular program. Amazing how little is correct here. Musk claims he deleted a group (18F) that assisted the IRS (among others) with the creation of the tax filing program. The group is (was) part of GSA.
tjohns 2y ago
What Elon's tweet says is that 18F has been "deleted": https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520 Their account on Twitter/X seems to have just been deleted: https://x.com/18F https://x.com/18F Which is a shame, because 18F did a lot of really good work, including creating login.gov. For those unfamiliar, 18F is (was?) a group within the GSA that other agencies could contract with for help building government websites.
ChrisArchitect 2y ago
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922543

63 points by standardUser 2y ago

wnevets 2y ago

You just know Musk defenders having been going through some serious cognitive dissonance the last few months.

basementcat 2y ago
The human mind is capable of amazing feats of mental gymnastics.
- wnevets 2y ago
  And instead of admitting they were wrong they will dig in even deeper.
- 77pt77 2y ago
  A non functioning one even more so.

mullingitover 2y ago

The only people who are opposed to making it easier to file taxes are: * People who profit from the complicated mess that is the current system * Anarchists who simply wish to burn the entire system of government to the ground, presuming that they'll become successful regional warlords

Terr_ 2y ago

Alternate headline: "Republicans congress to destroy Free IRS tax filing option." Congress is the sole check on this crazy power-grab by the President, refusing to act is complicity, and the public deserves to know the causes behind the damage. Musk is culpable but by no means uniquely culpable.

noltncy 2y ago

https://www.irs.gov/filing/irs-free-file-do-your-taxes-for-free https://www.irs.gov/filing/irs-free-file-do-your-taxes-for-f... The program is now open. I think Elon meant ‘deleted the team’.

readyplayernull 2y ago
Same as happened to Twitter?

XajniN 2y ago

It will not be needed if there is no income tax.

hnburnsy 2y ago

>President Trump’s “special government employee,” Elon Musk, announced on Monday that he has dissolved the Internal Revenue Service’s free file program, effectively firing the staff who worked on the popular program. Amazing how little is correct here. Musk claims he deleted a group (18F) that assisted the IRS (among others) with the creation of the tax filing program. The group is (was) part of GSA.

tjohns 2y ago

What Elon's tweet says is that 18F has been "deleted": https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520 Their account on Twitter/X seems to have just been deleted: https://x.com/18F https://x.com/18F Which is a shame, because 18F did a lot of really good work, including creating login.gov. For those unfamiliar, 18F is (was?) a group within the GSA that other agencies could contract with for help building government websites.

ChrisArchitect 2y ago

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922543