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Re:IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with ta... by maerF0x0 on Monday May 15, 2023 @03:22PM (#35953268)
> It’s a highly competitive market.

It's a competitive market on a stupid game. The market solutions (maybe mostly just intuit) fight to keep the game near impossible for the lay person to play. They generate "GDP" by making it more grievous than it need be.

At least part of this is a symptom of a broken political system (the current process of voting encourages 2 party system which are incentivized to not experiment)

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Re:IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with ta... by lazide on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:10PM (#35953814)
The political system is this way because the cities/urban areas and the rural areas have fundamentally different interests, and the vast majority of the resources and land area isn’t in urban areas.

The federal gov’t has enough power to make either of these groups miserable; and so each is using it to fight out who gets to do so.

Picking one to win isn’t going to stop the conflict, but it could turn it into a shooting war.

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