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by ibejoeb 5611 days ago
My only disappointment is that I was hoping to get in on the software market that would have been required to track all of this nonsense. It was a gift in that regard.

I've talked about this quite a bit in the tax industry, and there are a few popular opinions. My favorite so far is that this was designed to fail to show just how bad our tax code can get, which would then be used to usher in simplification/reform, i.e., VAT.