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"Not very, absolutely everyone hates doing their taxes and the whole shady process behind it all"

That's the Grover Norquist (and Republican) argument for not having IRS Direct File to begin with: if filing taxes becomes easy, people might not hate the IRS and hate taxes.

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

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And it's really because they don't know any poor people.

Because if they did, they'd know that filing taxes for low income people with kids is a HUGE bonanza, and they'd work like hell to implement a system where all tax credits were applied to individual paychecks, not lump sums during tax season. It's the one time of the year when their pockets are flush with cash.

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