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Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 6 months ago (3 children)

why isn't this constitutionally protected.

Can we pass an amendment for this shit? It's actually kind of fucked up.

[–] DudeImMacGyver 65 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Kind of? Are you going to tell us that the US healthcare system is "sorta silly" next?

[–] skullone 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sorta silly?! It's fucked beyond belief. Source: me, someone who profits off the healthcare industry as a corpo. Sorry 🤷.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

god if i had the arcane knowledge of the entire field of healthcare, i would do some unbelievably fucked up shit.

And by that i mean writing open documentation that is continually maintained and represents most healthcare providers in the US specifically to fuck up their entire existence.

[–] skullone 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Doo iiiiit! (If you can).

Honestly I do the best I can to fudge numbers and drive down prices, but I can only do so much. They're eventually going to catch on and replace me with someone who doesn't give a fuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

lol, perhaps one of these days i will have enough expendable income and time to dedicate to this kind of shit.

It'd make for a rather fun experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i mean, it is sorta silly. Not full sillyness, full sillyness would be forcing people in immediate life threatening injury to recite the ABC's backwards before operation as protocol.

[–] DudeImMacGyver 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure, there's degrees of silly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

i spose there would be, but at the end of the day. Silly is a rather silly word to be using in this manner.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

From a certain point of view? Yes.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think that some companies like turbotax are employing lobbyists to make impossible filing for taxes unless you go through a gatekeeper

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

yep, which is why its weird that we don't have a legally protected avenue of direct filing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have a couple of other constitutional amendments I'd like to advance before this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

idk man i think i disagree honestly.

Tax is one of the very few constants that we all have to legally deal with, aside from like, auto insurance.