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Re:GSA Eliminates 18F by quantified on Sunday March 02, 2025 @02:32AM (#43228220)
They are either deceptive or incredibly incompentent. There is no burden to any industry in giving the American taxpayer a free and authoritative easy way to file. Similarly, firing so many FDIC inspectors saves nothing, they are paid by the banks not the government.

I'm going with deceptive.

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Re:GSA Eliminates 18F by amiga386 on Monday March 03, 2025 @08:32AM (#43241533)
There is a burden, and a huge one at that, to the rent-seeking industry.

If there's a free and authoritative easy way to file taxes, then there's no reason for people to pay for unnecessary third party services who earn ALL their money by imposing themselves between the taxpayer and IRS. They will fight like bastards to preserve their privileged position.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...

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