Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2025 Poal.co

298

You are a sheep and you are getting sheared whether you like it or not.

A pox on the IRS. A pox on Congress. A pox on Intuit TurboTax.

America’s tax collection system is an abomination. It is an offense against our constitutional rights, republican government, and common sense itself.

As of 2019, Americans spent 1.7 billion hours and paid $31 billion per year to do their taxes. This is obscene. In a just world, the vast majority of taxpayers should pay zero dollars to do their taxes. The IRS knows how much you owe (by violating your Fourth Amendment rights), and it will punish you for not paying that amount. But the IRS won’t tell you what that amount is.

This is idiotic. I am a resident of Michigan and I own a home here. Twice a year I receive a letter from the city where I live with a tax bill based on their estimation of the value of my property. That letter contains the precise amount I owe. I then drive down to city hall and drop off a check.

[Source.](https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/17/the-tax-preparation-industry-deserves-to-die/) > ***You are a sheep and you are getting sheared whether you like it or not.*** > A pox on the IRS. A pox on Congress. A pox on Intuit TurboTax. > America’s tax collection system is an abomination. It is an offense against our constitutional rights, republican government, and common sense itself. > As of 2019, Americans spent 1.7 billion hours and paid $31 billion per year to do their taxes. This is obscene. In a just world, the vast majority of taxpayers should pay zero dollars to do their taxes. The IRS knows how much you owe (by violating your Fourth Amendment rights), and it will punish you for not paying that amount. But the IRS won’t tell you what that amount is. > This is idiotic. I am a resident of Michigan and I own a home here. Twice a year I receive a letter from the city where I live with a tax bill based on their estimation of the value of my property. That letter contains the precise amount I owe. I then drive down to city hall and drop off a check.

(post is archived)

You are currently inside a comment thread.
Click here to see all the comments (9).
[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Okay so here's how I spent my afternoon: I did my taxes last night, and I owe a special tax to Oregon that they didn't withhold correctly. The State Transit Tax. Okay, I owe them $1.00. They don't take payments online or by phone for this type of tax. You have to:

(1) Print out the tax form.

(2) Find an envelope. I literally never mail anything so I can't find them. Oh, wait, there are a few left in a box in the back of the office.

(3) Make a copy of my W-2.

(4) Write a check... I could not find my checkbook, because I literally do not know when the last time I wrote a check, so I had to go stand in line for 30 minutes to get a money order for one dollar. (By the way, the fee for the money order was also $1.00, so now we are at a running total of $2.00.)

(5) Get a stamp... when was the last time I mailed something? Last year at tax time? ($1.26... the running total is now $3.26.)

This trip involved a trip to Kinko's to make a copy, a trip to Walmart to get a money order, and a trip to the Post Office to buy one stamp. Guess what? If you use the machine, you have to buy TWO stamps because they have a minimum purchase. So I guess I'm all set for stamps for when this happens again NEXT year.

This process took an hour and a half. For one dollar. And it cost me $3.26 plus my gas driving all over town to pay it.

Kafkaesque.

And don't even get me started on Turbo Tax... they lobby (bribe) the federal government to keep taxes complex so that they can extract the maximum profit from the slaves.