“So a little public money on the front end could save a lot of money and eliminate a lot of corporate extraction on the back end. Tax prep is one of those areas in which the long, neoliberal push away from public goods really hurt society, on both fairness and cost; what should be a niche industry catering to people with truly complicated tax situations instead became a functional extension of the government, with a complicated and easily abused qualifying process leading to heaps of waste”
https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-twilight-of-big-tax