Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also we have to pay them whenever we want to use the code. Yes.

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  • bitofarambler@crazypeople.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you bought it, why shouldn’t you also rent it?

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly! Twice the value for my tax dollar!

      Not that I’ve ever paid taxes, but, you know, if my accounting department all suddenly died in mid march some year, and i wasnt operated out of a PO box in a tax shelter, i bet i mightve had to.

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      • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        All of the sweet, sweet gross domestic product statistics. Mmm I love GDPness.

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• refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We need better than that. We need a pinky promise.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s impractical, because for a pinky promise, you need to actually lock pinkies. We need a surrogate, like maybe the Commander in Chief?

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    • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think we should ask Chuck Schumer. He’s really good at getting things done.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Perfect, and since he’s in his 70s, he has all of that experience keeping promises to draw on.

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