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jadbox
4 months ago
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IRS Direct File on GitHub
Sigh. How much did cutting direct file really save?!
kelnos
4 months ago
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Irrelevant. Those in power don't actually care about saving money. They care about doing what their deep-pocketed donors want them to do, as well as fulfilling their ideology, however misguided and backward it may be.
paxys
4 months ago
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It was never about saving. The new budget literally adds $2.4 trillion to the federal defecit.
onlyrealcuzzo
4 months ago
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It adds $2.4T
MORE
than otherwise would've been added (which is already a lot) over a decade.
So it's adding an extra $240B in deficit per year (on top of an already ~6-7% of GDP deficit).
thuanao
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It was cut because tax preparing companies pay the politicians to cut it.
pjc50
4 months ago
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It makes it more expensive. But the important figure was the million dollar bribe.
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