Couldn’t a program just do this automatically?
This case is a good example of the difficulty—the only word that (sort of) appears in all these titles is "tax", but searching on that alone would cast too wide a net.
My sense is that we'd be better off writing software to allow the community to collaborate on a list of related URLs. That's the plan anyhow.
No reason that most people shouldn't have the government do their taxes for them.
If the IRS is in charge of doing people’s taxes, there is a non-zero chance that the IRS will not be completely trustworthy.
The real conversation should be about moving to a consumption tax and eliminating the political power that comes from income taxes. The current system is intentionally complex — designed to give politicians power to favor and disfavor behaviors and industries.
For taxes to be fair, people who have more means should pay more, as it's less of a burden on them than people of lesser means. If you think of someone who's not too well off, their entire paycheck is going to food and rent, and not savings. For wealthy people, some part of their paycheck is spent on consumption of things, but a larger part of it goes to savings and investments.
There's a reason why rich people go to tax havens that have no income tax and only sales tax.
Just make it so that it's only already 'prepared', you still have to sign them off or correct them if there's something wrong.
But I agree, the current system is intentionally complex and should be simplified.