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Multiple commenters have said that ~100,000 is "too low". The number quoted in the article is 104,000. Obvious questions: 1. Is 104,000 the exact count, or has it been rounded? 2. Did the hackers stop when their success count got there? 3. Does nobody else think it is funny that 1040 is a factor of 104,000? :) [edited a lot]
How is 1040 a famous number?(Australian here)
Multiple commenters have said that ~100,000 is "too low". The number quoted in the article is 104,000. Obvious questions: 1. Is 104,000 the exact count, or has it been rounded? 2. Did the hackers stop when their success count got there? 3. Does nobody else think it is funny that 1040 is a factor of 104,000? :) [edited a lot]
How is 1040 a famous number?(Australian here)
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You assume that the goal is to make society better. Currently one of the two major parties has aggressively staked out the position that government cannot work and should be privatized – from that perspective dysfunction is a goal, not a problem. I liked Adam Gopnik's summation last week: “What we have, uniquely in America, is a political class, and an entire political party, devoted to the idea that any money spent…
Just a talking point--empirically that's not true.
Feel like expanding that point? I mean shrinking government and changing society so people depend on it less is literally part of the national GOP platform. Is your argument just that they're not willing to sabotage things for political advantage? (and, if so, how are we to explain the billions spent shutting down the federal government as a negotiating tactic?)
I believe that this actually happened to me -- which tells me the 100,000 number is way too low. To be more precise: when we went to electronically file our 2014 return, it was rejected because our return had already been filed (not by us, of course). I (like 80+ million others) am a victim of the Anthem breach, and I have assumed that my fraudulent return was part of that breach. (Regardless, I have opted into the i…
So the IRS has a form you can send in to put a fraud alert or some type with them so I guess they will give your tax return special attention to see if it is really you next time. Also - I'm confused - I have an e-file PIN. You don't?
1) Prior year AGI
2) Electronic filing PIN
They can also issue a taxpayer a special Identity Protection PIN. If you're issued one of these you MUST use it.
There are two groups of people that don't need to "authenticate" at all:
1) Anyone who didn't file the previous tax year
2) Anyone filing by mail
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Why is it necessarily their fault? I'd suspect the information needed to access the tax returns was obtained via phishing or a data breach elsewhere like a tax preparation service.
It's their fault because the information needed is widely available.
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Just a talking point--empirically that's not true.
> empirically that's not true Feel like expanding that point? I mean shrinking government and changing society so people depend on it less is literally part of the national GOP platform. Is your argument just that they're not willing to sabotage things for political advantage? (and, if so, how are we to explain the billions spent shutting down the federal government as a negotiating tactic?)
So you really think whatever they tell you is true? The GOP has not actually shrunk the government. Even when they had full control over the senate, house, and the presidency, they did not shrink the government... in fact, they made it bigger.
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> empirically that's not true Feel like expanding that point? I mean shrinking government and changing society so people depend on it less is literally part of the national GOP platform. Is your argument just that they're not willing to sabotage things for political advantage? (and, if so, how are we to explain the billions spent shutting down the federal government as a negotiating tactic?)
literally part of the national GOP platform So you really think whatever they tell you is true? The GOP has not actually shrunk the government. Even when they had full control over the senate, house, and the presidency, they did not shrink the government... in fact, they made it bigger.
I'll never understand why our politicians continue to cut funding to the one organization that could help the government save AND make more money. Not to mention save all of us from the headache of things like this.
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literally part of the national GOP platform So you really think whatever they tell you is true? The GOP has not actually shrunk the government. Even when they had full control over the senate, house, and the presidency, they did not shrink the government... in fact, they made it bigger.
The poster above is saying that it's part of the GOP's political agenda that's marketed to voters, rather than necessarily what they do once they're in office.