[kosciusko51]

Physics is hard because the math to describe nature is hard.

Taxes are hard because the math to calculate taxes was designed by some (fill in the blank adjective) bureaucrat.

[nascarnation]

If people had to do their own taxes rather than using tax agents or computer programs, we’d see a simplified tax system pretty quickly.

[PeterPrinciple]

Taxes are hard because the math to calculate taxes was designed by some (fill in the blank adjective) bureaucrat.

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and now we two levels of bureaucrats, the irs and the computer programmer.

Tax software early on was intuitive, now I swear I could to it faster on paper.