April 11, 2019
Austin (I think it's spelled "Austan") Goolsbee -- have you seen and heard him on Fox News? He's the guy who's wrong about EVERYTHING! And he certainly seems to be here too. I have to say I kind of feel sorry for the guy. With a name like that, he probably had neighborhood kids stealing the newspapers he'd just delivered off the porches he'd thrown them on. Do you think HE'D use this program?As reform legislation Opens a New Window. advances through Congress Opens a New Window. that may eliminate a future IRS-created free filing software for taxpayers, New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested most Americans shouldn’t be preparing their own taxes.
In a speech on the House floor, the freshman lawmaker refereced (SIC) a Vox article which deemed it a "huge scandal†that lawmakers have not yet required the IRS to automatically prepare taxes for most Americans.
"Long-term, we should be looking at a solution where everyday people do not necessarily have to spend hours every year preparing tax returns, when the majority of Americans have relatively simple and straight-forward returns," she added.
Bipartisan reform legislation advancing through Congress – The Taxpayers First Act – contains a provision that would prevent the IRS from creating free tax preparation software to compete with private sector offerings from companies like TurboTax.
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Currently, the IRS offers a service called Free File for certain qualifying, lower-income taxpayers. It offers this service through authorized third-party providers,including companies like H&R Block.
Ocasio-Cortez’s idea is not necessarily a new one.
Austin Goolsbee, a former economist in the Obama administration, proposed the idea of a "simple return†more than a decade ago. Since the IRS is asking the majority of people to copy information it already has onto forms and then submit it, the "simple return†would have the IRS send the taxpayer the documents with pre-filled information. It was a voluntary program designed to save taxpayers who opted into the program both time and money.
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Posted by: Liza John at April 12, 2019 10:49 PM (AZc9b)
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 13, 2019 07:28 AM (mKc5Q)
And all this yadda yadda about "the rich don't pay their fair share: oh yes they do, although isn't it funny that leftists are totally unable to say what that "fair share" should be? If the rich actually started paying "their fair share," tax receipts in this country would nose-dive. Because WHY is it "fair" that Warren Buffet, for example, should be assessed a higher tax rate than I am?
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Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 13, 2019 10:37 AM (USbTt)
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