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TurboTax Parent Company’s Latest Argument Against Free Tax Filing: It Will Harm Black Taxpayers
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There's probably a grain of truth to "hurts Black people".
Racism -> blacks have less money -> wildly underfunded IRS mostly audits poor people who can't hire lawyers and fight back. That's the most profitable way for the IRS to gather money. Sickening, but here we are.
Also, racism regarding names is a thing. My first name and surname are total white bread, my middle name is almost exclusively "black". I'm betting black names get pulled out of the pile more often. I can tell stories. OTOH, I have no idea how audit randomization is handled, if at all.
So what does this all have to do with free filing being a bane to POC? LOL, jack and shit. If anything, giving people of modest or no means a way to file through the government only levels the playing field. How could it possibly hurt?!
Kinda off topic, but this article gave me a major part of the solution to lobbying. We can't make it illegal, that's unconstitutional, plain and simple.
First Amendment rights:
OK. If a corporation is a person, and it literally says so in the first section of the US Code (1 U.S. Code § 1 - Words denoting number, gender, and so forth_...
Hold up...
Then how the hell does Inuit get 62 additional voices to counter mine? 1 corporation = 1 voice. Yes, corporations deserve a voice in our government. They comprise people like you and I, and those people should be heard. But 63?!