in germany the government just sends you a card in the mail to tell you how much you owe

@PanasonicDX4500 You probably love when people tell you what to do

@ByrdFerguson2 I mean you absolutely get told how much you owe by the US government too they just make you take a guess first.

@PanasonicDX4500 Never said they didn’t! But if you’d like to blindly trust the gov to give you the correct amount to pay, then you 100% like being told what to do and that’s OK

@ByrdFerguson2 You can still dispute your tax bill in Germany or any other of the industrialized nations that just tell you what taxes you’re due, they just don’t make you have to figure it out yourself first.

@PanasonicDX4500 Cool. Germany is a much smaller country. Anything done across the board for a country as big as the United States is going to be massively inefficient. IRS currently doesn’t have the power to bill everybody so you probably want more taxes to cover the extra labor, costs. I do not

@ByrdFerguson2 @PanasonicDX4500 You’d rather pay a CPA $300? Government operations scale with population. Fucking moron

@numinouswarfare @PanasonicDX4500 Or e-file it myself using free software from a non-profit. Available to all. Fuckin moron