Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But in America, taxpayers spend *billions* every year to send forms to the #IRS that ...
But in America, taxpayers spend *billions* every year to send forms to the #IRS that tell it things it already knows. To make this ripoff seem fair, the hyper-concentrated tax-prep industry, led by the Intuit, creators of #Turbotax, pretended to create a program to provide free tax-prep to working people.
This program was called #FreeFile, and it was a scam.
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