Comment Maybe they're misinterpreting the results (Score 4, Interesting) 175
If you're asking someone to absorb difficult material (like Knuth or advanced physics) then you want to minimize other sources of 'disfluency'.
In theory, you'd think this would be the case. In practice, most people filing on April 15th are filing to get their money back, not send money in.
There are actually no incentives for governments to make it easier for taxpayers to get refunds. Taxpayers can create those incentives by reducing their withholdings to $0 so that they owe the government on April 15th rather than the other way around. Given California's problems, that seems like a pretty good idea anyway.
Where's the money in that?
Whereas there's always money in war profiteering and the latest thing, security profiteering.
(Until the money runs out...)
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God. -- J. Gustav White