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You’d think that simplifying tax returns and reducing costs in the taxation system would be something the right could get behind?
Isn't this the agency that gradually allowed Americans to file their taxes without paying some commercial third party for the privilege? Like the rest of the world? We Europeans used to be able to gleefully report that we could file our taxes in minutes (which, in fact, it being 1 March, I did today), but you almost had it fixed. Look, I know we Dutch aren't perfect. After all, that twat Rutte (our teflon coated form…
It’s funny to watch (probably) the same people in a tutorial-level situation who thought that if I’m a man/human/etc I should stand by their principles and just go and overthrow the dictator of the place I happen to live in.
Pro tip to 18F workers: get rehired as consultants for 2x the wages.
TIL that in America, if you work on a free tax filing system you are considered by some to be part of the "far left".
TIL that in America, if you work on a free tax filing system you are considered by some to be part of the "far left".
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But you don't understand. If the government helps you file your taxes, they'll use the service to collect your personal data, so the communists could use it against you at some point in the future. (this is the right wing argument, so to speak)
Is it? I think the more common right-wing argument is that you shouldn't have taxes / the IRS is just evil / the whole government apparatus needs to be burned to the ground. (I do not agree with it, it's just what I interpret the arguments to be)
>18F, the far left government wide computer office that was recently taken over by allies of @elonmusk, is also the same agency that built Elizabeth Warren's "Direct File" tax program.
>Direct File puts the government in charge of preparing peoples tax returns for them.
https://nitter.poast.org/alx/status/1886415751528972515?
Clearly, they think there is something malicious in having the federal government manage this service despite the fact that the result gets submitted....to the federal government anyway
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There are things that I at least understand, but who is opposed to direct tax filing and … why?
Intuit and their lobbyists, because.. you guessed it! Money.
(Direct File doesn't directly affect them, but the push towards automated tax collection strikes at the heart of their games.)