
Among America's obscenities is the existence of its "tax-filing industry," wherein normal everyday folks pay through the nose to file their taxes. The corporate circus of rent-seeking and regulatory capture which enables it is firmly entrenched [Propublica], but one small part of it is being shut down: a judge ordered Intuit to stop falsely claiming that its TurboTax software is free of charge [Ars Technica]. — Read the rest