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Doubt it. The Intuit and HR Block lobbying dollars make sure our tax system is complicated enough to keep their businesses booming.

Petitions are free, right? Unless it actually does exist, it makes sense to start one.

This petition is made by Free Software Foundation Europe. I guess you should ask Free Software Foundation to start one in the US.

Just sent an email. I'll update when I learn more.

This is cute, but this isn't how things work in the US. Money talks :)

And though a tooth may bend the purest coin, remember too how gold will knead reason and virtue themselves like dough.

I guess that's a quote. Where's it from?

Me.

I (unlike you) am lost for words.

Don’t forget the very lucrative business of “reducing tax exposure” where small firms get millions by knowing the smallest loopholes.