Why do they think Americans want to do their taxes on a postcard?

[hexola]

This is the biggest bunch of shit I've ever heard.

Disenfranchisement.

And - Its already pretty easy to do your taxes! Might not be fun - but pretty simple.

1040EZ is basically one page.

This is populist nonsense!

[Girard442]

1. It's a con that has been around forever.

Make taxation simpler and you also make it fairer and less. No one has ever explained how this could actually be true.

[dawg]

2. An income tax can be simple, or it can be fair.

It cannot be both.

[msongs]

3. its an excellent visual/graphic for frustrated people - tax on a postcard. repubs excel at

this sort of strategy. simple direct to the point and memorable. practical and doable? maybe not

[HAB911]

4. Intuit, H&R Block and many many others

WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/turbotax-h-r-block-spend-millions-lobbying-us-keep-doing-n736386

[gratuitous]

5. Even the 1040 long form is only two pages

But, okay, let's see a postcard length tax return. Right after we see Trump's tax returns.

Brandishing ersatz tax forms really should cost these fuckers politically and in the court of public opinion.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. But it's all those other forms that can add up to hundreds of pages.

Trump's full return probably weighs a ton.

[crazycatlady]

6. I wouldn't want my SSN on a postcard

Not even the last 4

[NurseJackie]

11. Put it in an envelope.

[snooper2]

7. Yeah, just mail out postcards with www.turbotax.com on them

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Yes, 1040EZ could be a postcard.

Except you probably want an envelope to hide the SSN, etc.

[hamsterjill]

10. I want capital gains to be taxed like wages.

I don't care what I do my taxes on.