| ▲ | LastTrain 2 hours ago |
| There isn’t much to study - it didn’t succeed or fail on the merits - someone didn’t like it because he didn’t create it so it got axed. |
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| ▲ | ronbenton an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| I disagree wholeheartedly that there isn’t much to study. Direct File was actually a resounding success, especially when you consider how much difficulty governments tend to have shipping good software products. There is a lot of good information in here that government entities can learn from. |
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| ▲ | mixdup an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Including how and why it died. That is an important lesson for the entire governmental enterprise, including all decision-makers, to learn: that government CAN deliver something good and one single person should not be in totalitarian control | | |
| ▲ | IncreasePosts an hour ago | parent [-] | | I think it speaks to doing things "the right way". Direct file could have been mandated by Congress, but it wasn't. Instead it only directed the IRS to do a "study" as a "voluntary agency initiative". That left full control of whether it should be done in the hands of the IRS and the executive branch. | | |
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| ▲ | firesteelrain an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | It had talented software engineers involved including with the marketplace. It succumbed to political forces |
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| ▲ | pudgywalsh an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | pas 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | let's say a non-profit hosts it somewhere can people use it to file their taxes for free? |
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