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Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by ip26 on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:31PM (#19724130)
Why are we even having to file our own taxes?

Supposedly a political gambit from the right. The idea is if paying your taxes is painless, you will cease to notice them. But the more painful paying them becomes, the more attention you will pay to what you are paying, and then the more you will object & vote to lower your taxes.

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Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by godelski on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @01:08AM (#19725748)
I've heard this too, but also that Regan supported this style of taxing. Which seems like part of the Republican ideal: cut out the middle man.
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Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by midasz on Thursday April 25, 2019 @03:07AM (#19745717)
A Planet Money episode went into this. It's basically:

- We (R) don't want taxes

- We will make filing taxes the most cumbersome thing possible

- People will hate taxes

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