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Re:Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax... by avmich on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:35PM (#13992662)
On the other hand, simpler taxes would lead to less expensive tax filing process. You don't need to buy an updated software, pay a professional or spend some hours - if not days - of your life doing something like that.

Are you sure people should keep this inconvenience as a reminder of government expenses?

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Re:Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax... by pbh101 on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:35AM (#13995668)
Believe me, I would love a simpler system, if not only for my own life but because the rent-seeking of Intuit et al is infuriating. Though I think almost any tax increase would dwarf the marginal reduction of filing process price (and probably time for many too).

What I wanted to specifically notr is that this is also an effect I think it valid for Norquist to point out, not only that treating unintentional tax evasion reduction as a tax hike, which I think is a silly argument.

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