News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access. Parent comment

Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:00PM (#29998339)
You understand that even NJ taxes are low by comparsion with most western European nations, yes? And that even in those nations, people still find publically-facing government agencies frustrating to deal with?

Still, I'm inclined to agree with you that some of what you describe in your 2nd para is likely happening too.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:35PM (#29999661)
>And that even in those nations, people still find publically-facing government agencies frustrating to deal with?

That seems to contradict your assertion that the government would have given him better service had more taxes been directed at them.

Having worked in this space my cynical observation is that you don't get the budget to run a big appeals process and a quality watchdog team, etc, etc, if you don't suck bad enough to need those things in the first place.

[ Parent | on HN ]