News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free. Parent comment

Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by rockinghigh on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:13PM (#21284168)
Lobbyists often threaten to fund whoever will campaign against the elected official at the next election. They say "we will allocate $1M to a PAC benefiting your opponent if you advocate for free tax filing".
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by balabaster on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:04PM (#21284748)
It never ceases to astound me how this is allowed and accepted in the U.S. America is the first to complain about corruption in other countries around the world... yet here we are.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by beefalo on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:36PM (#21288183)
We privatized corruption and turned it into a business model
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by ronaru on Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:14PM (#21286416)
Corruption is legalized here. Changing these laws is hard!
[ Parent | on HN ]