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... and if you don't agree with the numbers?

Then you can do the whole file process. For most people the government gets all the data. The filing process is purposely keeping tax companies in business today.

The point of my response is that the analogy was broken without saying what adding those pages could provide.

Right, but now there are a million extra pages in the filing process. Many more companies would be kept in business to deal with the extra garbage!

The analogy isn't broken. Your objection didn't really make sense, because adding pages to the tax code makes the tax code strictly more complicated. Your response just ignored the case where that complexity actually matters.

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