IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access

Re:IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access by wolverine876 on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:42PM (#30254965)

The GOP opposes it; they are the obstacle. I think such actions by the GOP has become normalized for people, and so they overlook it. I don't see how you can blame the Democrats, who are voting for it.

> If it was priority for the Dems, they'd have done it.

Easily said, but as we know, not easily done.

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Re:IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access by ThunderSizzle on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:36AM (#30258841)

https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

Seems like the donations are pretty evenly split for the companies that would be the largest lobbies over the past several years. This seems like the case of the uniparty being apparent, where there's no real drive to simplify the tax code because it's something both can blame each other on when nothing is done. Of course, this was the entire point of the TEA Party (which later became manifested as MAGA), which was mainly a conservative movement, so it manifested inside the GOP, but the GOP RINOs in Congress did nothing.

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Re:IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access by wolverine876 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:13PM (#30266740)

Despite your hypothesis, the evidence is that the Democrats vote for it, and the GOP against it.

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Re:IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access by ThunderSizzle on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:33PM (#30278837)

I haven't seen the Dems get into law a significant simplification of the tax code in the last 20 years. The last simplification we got was from Trump (which was a good step, but obviously isn't the final desired location).

He also did that before the Dems took back the House, so he had the GOP sign on to it.

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