Comment by breadwinner
7 months ago
Over the weekend I helped someone file taxes using http://directfile.irs.gov/
It is very impressive in terms of usability and design.
Musk “deleted” 18F, a government agency that worked on technology projects such as Direct File.
I have a feeling that the current government wants to transfer as much power as possible from the government agencies to private companies.
Intuit spends millions lobbying against simplifying the tax code and against government filing free tax services... while raising the price of their software.
https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
Not surprised that Intuit lobbied hard to kill Direct File as well:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724267
This seems like too needlessly complex of an explanation. This administration doesn't even seem like it cares about private companies.
The only consistent theme of this administration is it simply doesn't like nice things. It is looking for new and interesting ways to be cruel. And that's explanation enough for its motivations.
I think the current regime just hates the idea of the US government and wants to destroy it as thoroughly as possible. If that results in transfer of power to private businesses or foreign countries, that's just a fun side effect for them.
They violently oppose pretty much everything laid out in the preamble to the Constitution.
“Justice? Tranquility? Welfare? All this, and a union? Absolutely not!”
It's cartoonishly easy to figure out what they want to destroy and what they want to keep.
If it's something that benefits ordinary people, they want it dead and buried. If it's something that benefits large corporations or the very wealthy, they want it to thrive.
the team behind that stuff was private company consultants...
No it was the team known as 18F that Elon Musk "deleted".
https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-musk-18f-6a4dc35a...
Excerpt: Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk posted Monday on his social media site that he had “deleted” 18F, a government agency that worked on technology projects such as the IRS’ Direct File program.
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Did you mean the Direct File one?
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