I tried to use it, but it was useless anyway.
I cannot think of even but one single thing that Donald Trump has done to benefit the working class. Not even a single thing, no matter how small or petty.
I have no idea why anyone would ever think Donald Trump of all people would ever want to do that.
I don’t even think America is about us. Republican or Democrat I honestly think we are played out. It’s basically a repetitive good cop bad cop lifestyle.
People should remember what real humanity is and live for that more and America less.
Banned those harmful artificial food dyes.
Aaand that’s about it.
Has that actually happened though? I thought they were just talking about doing it.
“Harmful”
I prefer my substance control to be based on evidence, not vibes.
He’s getting rid of the Mexicans taking their job…
The jobs that none of them want to do in the first place…
For wages none of them would accept…
Wait…
I’d prefer we get rid of the CEOs that are giving our jobs away.
See, for me this line of thinking is troublesome. It implies we have to or should rely on the exploitation of desperate people willing to work for pennies on the dollar because they have no legal recourse.
Fuck ICE, this administration, and everything else that’s going on but let’s not normalize the exploitation of desperate people to keep the machine churning.
Oh I’m not implying that’s a good thing at all… Thats what the MAGAts seem to believe, they just never get to that last word there, never get to the realization point.
So advocate for better wages for them. I bet even at $20/hr you would struggle to get an American to do the job.
Getting rid of them only creates problems.
Torturing them on the way out, is just evil.
He doesn’t need to because that’s not what his supporters want. They want racism and hatred and that’s what he provides.
This seems alright, no?
The executive order directs the HHS and the Treasury and Labor departments to ensure hospitals and insurers disclose “actual prices of items and services, not estimates” and take action to ensure “pricing information is standardized and easily comparable across hospitals and health plans” including prescription drug prices.
I predict a lot of people are going to just not file taxes, and I expect the IRS won’t have the resources to do anything about it.
Too bad most of us have already been paying taxes and need to file in order to get a refund.
If the gubment knows what I owe or overpaid, why the fuck do we do our taxes, except to pay a corporation?!
Blue States should use this as an opportunity to create an open-source tax filing coalition. That way, if they need to prevent taxes from reaching the feddies or want to secede, some of the infrastructure would already be in place.
Also, it would just be nice to get tax filing done without hassle.
You guys need to stop thinking that states have any control over how much money gets sent to the IRS. Federal taxes are paid directly to the federal government by individuals and businesses, they’re not collected by the states and sent on to the feds. States have no mechanism to stop sending money to the IRS, because the state itself isn’t the entity that sends money in the first place.
We should file all of our taxes ourselves through the paper option. No digital taxes this year. It’s not that hard if all you have is a W2, it takes longer but it also will mean you file for free and more importantly takes the government longer to process it. You can get the papers for free from the library.
Throw dirt into the gears.
sounds like that just means its longer between when I send it and when I get that big refund check
A bigger check because you’re not paying a company to do something you can do for free.
Plus with the way things are going it’ll be delayed anyway
This didn’t happen overnight. For over 20 years, Intuit has fought tooth and nail to stop Americans from having a truly free, government-run tax filing system. Back in the early 2000s, they lobbied Congress and cut a deal with the IRS. They were promising to offer a “Free File” option so the government wouldn’t build its own system. Then they turned around and buried that option so deep most people never found it, even using code to hide it from Google.
When people did try to file for free, they were steered into paid versions with deceptive “free, free, free” ads. They were so deceptive that Intuit had to pay $141 million in settlements. Now, after decades of manipulation, Direct File is being terminated. This is exactly what they’ve wanted all along. It’s the result of relentless lobbying, lies, and corporate greed, all to keep Americans paying for something that should have been free from the start.
Agreed. Probably for most filers, the IRS (and state governments) could just automatically do the work. They already have most of or all of the data. The idea that you have to pay some no-value-add middleman for the “privilege” of filing your taxes is crazy.
For people that have more complicated scenarios, and are trying to take every single deduction, have to hire a CPA and so on…that’s maybe where these middlemen provide something of value.
Gov could do this, like most other countries. Send a card to the person saying this is what you owe, if you agree just sign.
Instead we get the gov saying ‘we know what you owe, lets see if you can figure it out too. And if youre wrong, you owe us more.’
Could not agree more. It’s so ridiculous. There might have been a time where it made sense, maybe before computers came along? Maybe in the 1940s or 1950s?
You just knew when these assholes kept using obviously-coordinated terms like “waste, fraud and abuse” and kept parroting phrases like that when Elon was doing stupid shit like waving around a chainsaw while in a k-hole, that this is the kind of thing they are talking about.
Trump was reached for comment, and he shared “because fuck you” as the reason.
I think he’d be more likely to say “what are taxes?”
I DONT Understand why Voters REJECTED this at the Polls last night!
Maybe this is a “whoosh”, but this is something the IRS (under Trump) decided to do. So no voting was directly involved.
Man, I wish I owned a government, must be cool to make your money by forcing your serfs to give you their money for free stuff
Well funk. I used this the first time last year. Every year prior I got ass fucked by intuit. I guess this year I’m going back to papers and mailing it.
Plugging freetaxusa, I’ve used it for ~4 years. Only cost is ~15 for state taxes. If you used the free file option chances are freetaxusa won’t have any issues with your taxes
I’ve used it the last 4 years, it’s as easy as TurboTax and way cheaper
