IRS is great at sending letters but not so great at naming or publicizing things (see IRS Free File, or paper forms being available at post offices and libraries) or maintaining technology from this century (they send faxes regularly and still run COBOL)
While I am, of course, the most based person in existence and all others must bask in my greatness, I was using lemming as a demonym for users of Lemmy, the fediverse platform you are using.
Terrible minds think alike across the pond. The Cooper Davis Act, STOP CSAM Act, and EARN IT Act are similar proposals in US Congress regarding restrictions on messaging and encryption.
For more biased (but probably agreeable to Lemmings) coverage, see the EFF’s article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/colorado-supreme-court-upholds-keyword-search-warrant
CIA and China’s Ministry of State Security are going to love this
Wake me up when I can try Orgiatic Omniflave
What’s next? Commissioner for Justice saying crime is bad? Commissioner for Fisheries saying fish are neat?
Blow it out your ass until you do something substantive Hoekstra!
Imagine paying a robot’s company $9 an hour for it to get HitchBot-Ed or mugged like a food delivery bot by anyone who owns a facemask
Oh no they’ve always collected it themselves, you just have to wade through ~4K pages of tax code that has averaged one change a day for the last decade.
But if you get it wrong, they’ll happily mail you a correction if you erred low. Plus penalties and interest of course.
The middle men like Intuit are a symptom of the legislature trying to use taxes to incentivize or disincentivize every little thing and still get pork for their districts. There’s a good 20 pages of code and case law on the depreciably of race horses that I’m sure the Senators from Kentucky had a hand in.