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Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan
Why have to fill out a postcard? There is no reason the government can't simply take the taxes by you setting up a direct payment from a CC or bank account.
The insanity is amazing, I have to understand (some? all?) 34,000 pages of taxes codes to fill out a tax form and figure out how much I have to pay. Calling the IRS to get a clarification often results in incorrect information. If I figure it out wrong, I have to pay a fine. So, I am punished for not understanding what the IRS employees themselves don't understand.
I have for decades had the position that if I was ever elected DICTATOR my first act would be to give all the congress critters legal pads and pencils. And they would have 60 days to write as many laws as they could on paper and get them passed. At the end of 60 days, ALL EXISTING laws and tax codes would be removed and only those they had written and passed would be in force. (Oh and no staff doing the writing, the staff can research, the congress critter has to write it out longhand.) On and on the first day I would fire ALL congress critters and draft a new set via Sortition that would have a single 6-year term.
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A postcard is LESS than 12 pages...
Oh, and thank God, you'll never be "elected DICTATOR" (btw, isn't that a oxymoron?
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