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Why be mad at either party? They are both making rational choices given their circumstances.

I don't expect politicians to act on principles more than anyone else. They are just trying to keep their jobs, and they functionally depend corporate financing to do this, so they will naturally go to bat for the same people.

Intuit is a profit-making machine with side-effects that include creating a tax-filing product. The people running it are acting rationally to keep their jobs too.

This situation is a predictable outcome given the way the system works, and is one example of the failings and inefficiencies of the system to serve the common good.




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