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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by PhaseLockk on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:06AM (#13855588)
Maybe there's a correlation for a reason? Namely that functional governments which keep the peace and provide services to their citizens need income in order to operate.
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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by smsm42 on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:23PM (#13860018)
What US government is doing goes very far beyond "keeping the peace". Only the discretionary budget is 1.5 trillion dollars. Americans would be a really wild bunch if it required $1.5 trillion to "keep the peace".
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