[hunter23]

> The system should never had become so complex as to need a program.

Actually there were bills in congress that would have made it so a program wasn't needed because the government would file on your behalf (https://slate.com/business/2019/04/turbotax-bipartisan-tax-f...). In most cases the government knows enough about you to calculate your taxes for you. Turbotax lobbied the government to kill these bills because it would have destroyed their business model.

So the reason you have to use a complicated form or program to file, is entirely Turbotax's fault because they have lobbied the government from making it simpler for users.

Of course a bigger root cause is that lobbying is undermining our democracy.

[umvi]

> Turbotax lobbied the government to kill these bills because it would have destroyed their business model.

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky

[nojvek]

Well it’s still Congress’s fault for being scammed by a corporation.

In way, US is run by corporations so I think this was by design.

This is a country for corporations, run by corporations.

What’s written on US passports is a lie.