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Republicans and Dems Come Together — to Keep IRS From Competing with TurboTax

Legislators from both political parties support a bill that would bar the IRS from offering taxpayers software that would compete with programs like TurboTax. In March, tax activist Grover Norquist and others wrote a letter to members of Congress that urged them to support the bill — what they called a “pro-taxpayer, anti-IRS power grab legislation.”

The Corporate Capture of the United States

Corporate governance activist Robert AG Monks argues that American corporations today are like the great European monarchies of long ago. “Corporations have effectively captured the United States: its judiciary, its political system, and its national wealth, without assuming any of the responsibilities of dominion,” he writes. “Evidence is everywhere.”