[dragonwriter]

> they want you to explicitly lie about it so you can be prosecuted for it.

Since “they” also define what you can be prosecuted for, that’s a bit of an odd justification even before considering the fairly strong evidence from both tax prep lobbying and anti-tax candidate behavior (including occasionally saying the quiet part out loud directly about the pain in the process being necessary to keep tax burden front of mind for taxpayers) that the two reasons cited by the grandparent are, in fact, the dominant factors.