I’m happy to see anybody unburdened by the US legal system, but there’s something underwhelming about the most powerful politician in the country only now deigning to use his executive power.
People are cheering and memeing in unsurprising 
fashion and I’m like bruh, he could have done this and more. Years ago. And they’re talking about the necessity of voting and how bad trump would be. Like where do you think Brandon was when drafting the anti marijuana bills?
That said, I don’t want to come across as unreasonable when good things happen. If a lib approached me and shared this news, what would be an appropriate response?
Link because I got that bird box disease where I want to make people to see the thing.
It’s the exact same thing with taxes. If they already know exactly how much I owe at the end of the year, why the fuck do I still have to do shit every year??? They already know my bank account, as evidenced by the COVID checks that they deposited directly into it without me doing a damn thing, so if I owe/am owed money at the end of the year there’s nothing stopping them from just doing it without asking me first. If you know everything you already need to know to do a thing that needs to be done, then just do the fucking thing without putting up a bunch of arbitrary fucking bureaucratic hoops to make people jump through. But of course it’s yet another thing wealthy people pay professionals to take care of for them, and poor people have to do themselves, and since the state is dedicated to absolutely never allowing poor people’s lives to become even an iota easier, it will never happen.
It is so infuriating that the people who work at the IRS want to make it easier, the taxpayer wants to make it easier, objectively it’s smart to make taxes easier on the population, but because of capitalism we’re stuck doing this ridiculous dance.
Plenty of countries already do this too, so it’s not like it’s impossible.
I only have to edit my tax returns when I need a specific deduction that they wouldn’t know about (like paying a membership fee or doing renovations on my house). Most of the time I just leave it as is and end up overpaying a little (but then get it all back next year). Zero hassle, never had an issue, really, and this is with a bunch of cuts to the tax office in recent decades.