[ahallock]

Wouldn't you, if that were your business model? Let's blame TurboTax when it's legislators selling their power. They could, you know, be representatives of the people and not be influenced by TurboTax.

Plus, that article talks about TurboTax lobbying against the government providing their own tax software, nothing about making returns simpler. Why would a government-run service be simpler? I'm sure TurboTax wants to make their software as simple to use to compete with other tax return services. I've found these services very simple to use myself. If we were talking about making the tax code simpler, I would agree, so perhaps I missed that.

[ryguytilidie]

Your point seems to be that we shouldn't blame a corporation worth billions for making laws that make our society worse because there are others at fault as well...?

[MayanAstronaut]

That's like saying it was not the Confederacy's fault for trying to stop the Thirteenth Amendment because it ruined their 'business model' too.

If a business pays money to make anyone's life harder then they are bad.

[ahallock]

What does that say about the government then? They are complicit. The government is accepting money to make people's lives harder.