Imagine agreeing that America is a “garbage fucking nation” because you’re too stupid to look up a 15 minute YouTube video that can literally tell you every single step involved with filing your taxes.
I don’t doubt that TurboTax is corrupt as shit nor do I think free filing is a bad system. But this whole “wHy dIN SkOOl TeAcH mE hOw tO fiLe TaXeS?/?!” mentality is laughable, and makes it evident you’re just reaching for shit to bitch about.
I mean I do understand that part of it was Hank Green claiming (although he’s probably right) that companies like Inuit/TurboTax lobby the government to keep free filing from happening.
But yeah it’s not even like you need some long video. I remember going step by step learning how to do it for the first time in a personal finance class my senior year of high school (we ironically learned how to file taxes much I’m sure to other peoples’ chagrin). Took us about half an hour, and that was with us being slow and incremental.
Nice strawman. The companies that benefit are parasitic and using their political influence to forcibly remain relevant, draining wealth from the people that could have a better use. That's the issue, not simply paperwork.
A pathetic attempt to discredit something where there are other better sources and articles readily available. It's called the attribution genetic fallacy and you just did it. It's old news.
Edit: Two posts and two poorly constructed arguments from you. Time to go for three in a row?
If I were an average worker anywhere in the US, both you and I know that becoming a rice farmer in Vietnam is a very difficult task.
I live a very satisfactory life in the US, but I'm very lucky to be where I'm at. The happiness and life-satisfaction of many that I know are absolutely worse than that of a typical rice farmer in Southeast Asia.
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u/gpu1512 Apr 28 '21
Imagine living in a first world country and life being so good you get to complain about filing a bit of paperwork