yellowstuff

4개월 전discuss

You make a valid point. Dario suggests that DoD wants to have the capacity to do domestic surveillance and autonomous killing. Sean Parnell said the DoD doesn't want those capacities. These statements are in conflict. Them talking past each other is one possibility. Without much evidence except the track record of the Trump administration, I think it is much more likely that Sean Parnell is lying.

yellowstuff

6개월 전discuss

From Stephen Fry: "You know that scene in Animal House where there’s a fellow playing folk music on the guitar, and John Belushi picks up the guitar and destroys it. And the cinema loves it. Well, the British comedian would want to play the folk singer. We want to play the failure."

Homer and Peter Griffin are idiots but they smash the guitar. Charlie Brown gets his guitar smashed.

yellowstuff

7년 전discuss

Sure, taxes couldn't be fully automated, but those are the reasons the IRS won't just send you a pre-filled form with the information they have, and instead makes the taxpayer duplicate that information.

yellowstuff

7년 전discuss

Two reasons:

* H&R Block and Intuit have good lobbyists who prevent it from happening.

* Republicans want to make filing taxes difficult so that people won't like taxes. In particular Grover Norquist has managed to get essentially all federal level Republican politicians to sign a pledge not to raise taxes, and Norquist considers making filing simpler to be effectively raising taxes.

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/07/18/tax-filing-...

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