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> The government should make all this easier. The US is one of the only countries in the world where people have to report their own income to the government every year (and a big reason for that is the companies like TurboTax that make so much money from it). In almost all cases, the government already knows how much tax you owe before you tell them anything. If fixing this was a priority for our politicians, none of us would have to file taxes ever again!

The conclusion makes a lot of sense. So many people wasting so much time is extremely expensive for the USA. And all of that waste is created because a couple of corporations bribe politicians to make public services worse. (And probably because the goverment can say that they "saved" money by not spending what is required to make it less wasteful).



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