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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 08:17:23 JST Alex Gleason
   From The Paper Age To The Digital Age (Andy Zito, 1985)
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 08:17:53 JST Alex Gleason

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     The IRS is still somewhere in between there.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 08:19:54 JST Alex Gleason

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     Explain
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     Ever Beedle (dave@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 08:19:55 JST Ever Beedle

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     They want to be digital, thank the lobbyists for this one
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     ThatGuyBosch :verified: (thatguybosch@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 08:21:53 JST ThatGuyBosch :verified:

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     @alex I remember simultaneously taking drafting in middle school while learning Basic on a Commodore 64 at home.
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     Ever Beedle (dave@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 08:27:28 JST Ever Beedle

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     Maybe I'm conflating issues here, but the IRS, like most 1st world tax agencies, already knows (in most cases) what you owe. In these other countries where this is the case, they just send you an invoice, and you don't even have to do a tax return (unless they made a mistake).
     
     And the IRS has made efforts in the past to switch to this model. It's both good for you since it reduces hassle, and good for them since effort dealing with people making honest mistakes + effort dealing with people trying to cheat because they think the government doesn't know what they make is a huge waste, but because of lobbying from companies like Intuit, they aren't allowed to.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 08:28:36 JST Alex Gleason

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     Oh right, literally Turbotax bullied the IRS into not modernizing. Bunch of terrorists.
     
     I had to send a FAX to the IRS today asking for old tax returns.
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     Ever Beedle (dave@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Aug-2022 08:33:35 JST Ever Beedle

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     What grosses me out about the whole thing is how little money is actually being made. Americans are forced to deal with so much hassle, and in some cases even strife, because some corporate faggots decided it was OK to make a few extra bucks at our expense.
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