They are aided in this endeavor by swivel-eyed lunatic anti-tax obsessives, like #GroverNordquist and #AmericansForTaxReform, who argue that paying taxes should be as difficult and painful as possible in order to foment opposition to taxation itself.

The tax-prep industry is dominated by a single firm, #Intuit, who took over tax-prep through its #anticompetitive acquisition of #TurboTax, itself a chimera of multiple companies gobbled up in a decades-long merger orgy.

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Every attempt to bring free tax prep to America has been scuttled by an unholy alliance of anti-tax extremists like #GroverNordquist (a sadist who wants to make paying your tax as cumbersome and painful as possible) and the multi-billion-dollar, highly concentrated tax-prep industry.

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