points by rbhelt 1 day ago | 0 comments
It is truly insane. Major corporations spent billions to prevent this. The worst part is that for the majority of Americans, the government has already internally prepared their tax return before they even file but again the tax preparation industry spends a fortune lobbying Congress to prevent an automatic filing of taxes.
In either case the tax prep industry is a pox on our society. But of course this is America, and replacing a perfectly functioning publicly accessible service with a nightmare of private sector bullshit is the most violently American shit ever.