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Comment Re:Is it hard to build? (Score 1) 33

While Germany struggled to build 27,000 trucks in 1943, America produced over 560,000 GMC trucks alone.

There are other factors to take into account: for example, the difference in population by a factor of two, or the fact that only one of those two nations was under heavy bombing of its industrial zones at the time.

Comment There was no reason to develop it to begin with (Score 0) 92

DirectFile was a nice effort but the reality is that after spending 25 million dollars developing it the product was nowhere near as mature as the free commercial services that are already out there. It would have cost many millions more to enhance it further, scale it up, and support it going forward and that was just to provide Federal tax filing services. You would still need to do a state return which again the available free services already offered.

If you think the project has merit then take the source code and run with it: https://github.com/IRS-Public/...

Comment Re:Fuck this country (Score 0) 92

Bingo! Never used a tax prep service. And I am self employed (so no ez-form for me). For me the government(open or closed) is a money sink, which provides little useful return in day to day life.

Taxes are pretty simple really. Uncle Guido(the government) takes x% of every dollar you make. it is November so I'm paying 15.3 Fed and Fica, all my current income atm is in the 22% bracket and the state and local taxes(blue state) takes another 6-8%. So just add it up and send the money.

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