How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)

Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by philipov on Friday March 15, 2019 @07:59PM (#19405446)

I would like to popularize a term for this kind of behavior: Political Terrorism.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by jlawson on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:33PM (#19405602)

All terrorism is political.

Also, I tire of the constant politically motivated attempts to inflate the usage of words to try to attach awful connotations to relatively innocuous things. Please stop.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by toomuchtodo on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:40PM (#19405634)

What other term would you use for holding the country hostage through flagarant, unapologetic cronyism and regulatory capture?

Edit: None of these replies really captures of the gravity of the situation IMHO.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by otterley on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:43PM (#19405651)

Corruption.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by tedunangst on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:14PM (#19405983)

Economic water boarding, obviously.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by lallysingh on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:22PM (#19406012)

Government

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by int_19h on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:03PM (#19405743)

Plutocratic oligarchy.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by gumby on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:00PM (#19405927)

abuse

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