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How about instead of allowing Americans file free online, we don't have anyone file but rather send out a pre-filled form that just needs sign off by citizens (the government already knows most of the stuff the average person fills in on their tax forms).

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If those crazy conspiracists thought mass ballot harvesting was bad, imagine doing that with pre-determined tax forms that only requires a signature.

Shall we continue giving our government ideas to incentivize the gaming of their system?

Such a system would have to include a provision that lets you reject the government's computations and submit the usual tax forms instead. I imagine the crazies would just do that.

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