Why Can’t the I.R.S. Help Fill in the Blanks?
24th January 2010
Requiring taxpayers to file returns without being told what the government already knows makes as much sense “as if Visa sent customers a blank piece of paper, requiring that they assemble their receipts, list their purchases — and pay a fine if they forget one,” said Joseph Bankman, a professor at the Stanford Law School.
Yeah, well, Visa is there to make money, the IRS is just there to steal money. If you can legally steal peoples’ money, then you can legally steal their time, too.