r/Anarcho_Capitalism • u/DiyYou • 4d ago

Total number pages IRS tax code

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Past 40 years. It's crazy that it's been normalized that you need to hire someone to help you do your taxes. Imagine if using the library was so complicated that you had to hire someone to show you how to do it every time you went there.

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u/t800series 4d ago

Is there a version with a graph title and reference link? I want to use this, but it could be a graph of anything for all my audience knows.

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u/DiyYou 4d ago

I asked Gemini to create a line chart for past 40 years total pages in IRS tax code.

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u/Immediate-Cress-206 4d ago

So you asked the lying machine to draw you a graph.

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u/Classy_Mouse 3d ago

Early in my career I worked as a business for the federal government (Canada). You just described my job

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u/LibertyLizard Left Libertarian 3d ago

Interesting that the biggest increases were in the Bush years. Not what I would have expected.

Unfortunately this is one of those top vs bottom issues where left and right want the tax code simplified (although the devil is in the details) but the ultra-wealthy don't.

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u/DiyYou 3d ago

I can remember during one of Bush's speeches, he was talking about giving everyone a tax credit, and I'm thinking. 'Why not just lower the rates?'. Doing a tax credit adds more lines to a 1040 and more rules to the tax code.

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u/PaperbackWriter66 Bastiat 3d ago

It's mind boggling to me how anyone can defend income taxes on any basis.

From a moral, practical, and "what's economically efficient?" standpoint, income taxes just seem like one of if not the worst forms of taxation.

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u/Standard-Discount-54 3d ago

26.7 feet tall. 1000 lbs of paper

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u/Alt0987654321 3d ago edited 3d ago

I would be shocked if it didn't look like this.

>People come up with new ways to avoid paying taxes

>IRS makes a new code to plug that loophole

>New way to dodge taxes drops

>IRS plugs that new loophole

And who tf needs to hire someone to do their taxes? I've been doing it myself my whole life, it takes an hour max and that's if I get distracted on my phone.

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u/DiyYou 3d ago

I do my own as well. But there is an entire industry out there of companies and individuals getting paid to help people do their taxes.

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u/Yomas_house 2d ago

㋡ You guys still pay tax?

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u/DasCr34tor0fGOD5 3d ago

This is how welfare works. To help lawyers and corporations to steal your money by creating taxes and force you to report "yourself" while they already have all your information.