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Lobbying by the tax accountant and tax software industry: http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing http://www.p
by seiji 13y ago
Lobbying by the tax accountant and tax software industry: http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-...
- twoodfin 13y agoTo be fair, there's also a strong contingent within the U.S. political right that believes paying taxes should be made as explicit (and, potentially, annoying) as possible, lest the citizenry fail to appreciate how much of their income is being extracted to fund the government. This kind of thinking has popped up on the left from time to time as well, around things like military spending.
- seiji 13y agoThe solution there is just to get a receipt showing the breakdown. W-2's are kinda that already at a very coarse-grained scale. We don't have any system in place to show military spending breakdowns or get people upset about it or give people who are upset about it a way to influence changes shrinking it in the future.