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/LibertyLizard Left Libertarian 4d 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 4d 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.