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Re:Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering ... by linuxftw on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:09AM (#19614767)
Most tax payers can't multiply two fractions. It could be as simple as filling in 3 fields on a form, they'll still march down to Jackson Hewitt and pay someone hundreds of dollars to do it for them.
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Re:Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering ... by komali2 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:27PM (#19620055)
Which, IMO, is a failure at the government level.

Either make it so stupid easy a nearly illiterate child could do it, make it unnecessary (just have the IRS file for us), or massively improve the terrible state of the education system in the USA.

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Re:Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering ... by linuxftw on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:14PM (#19621180)
Or, just get rid of the income tax altogether as it's pretty draconian.
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