> I am surprised no one has started a go fund me to make a fund just to bribe politicians to fix tax filing. > > It would be cost effective VS paying for tax prep!

It will not work, part of compensation is being hired as lobbyist after you "retire" from public office. So either go fund me will do the same or it will fail.

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com2kid 20 hours ago | parent [-]

> It will not work, part of compensation is being hired as lobbyist after you "retire" from public office. So either go fund me will do the same or it will fail.

This is a bit reductive. Not everyone member of Congress goes to work for TurboTax after they retire!

However I imagine Inuit is a reliable source of campaign contributions every year. The simple solution is to get enough funding that the campaign can promise 3 or 4 election cycles of support for any politicians that vote in favor of tax filing reform.

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 18 hours ago | parent [-]

There's no guarantee this doesn't simply make the bribe more expensive for Intuit.

	▲	com2kid 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are limits to corporate donations and lobbying, which is why the price of lobbying seems so low (see the linked blog post in the comments here!) SuperPACs get around that, but there is a chance a large company like Inuit isn't agile enough to defend against a well organized political attack. Ultimately career politicians care about being elected. Even corrupt ones need to stay in office and they'll happily sacrifice one small donor to keep the gravy train coming with all their other connections. If an independently funded lobbying group walks into DC and tells a senator they just raised 30M dollars and 80k residents in their state donated as part of that, I bet people will start to listen.