Dark Times? Really?
The number of people complaining that this happens to be "dark times" confuse me. Granted, Ashtabula County gets very little sunshine and is a very bad place to try to implement solar power as we have the fewest sunny days locally compared to the rest of the state. Heck, Vitamin D deficiency is common enough simply through the lack of direct sunlight being received here. These aren't just dark times now but they're generally dark times compared to living near Nellis AFB which is in the prime area for solar power.
Oh, most people are referring to President Donald John Trump? Well, if this is a facist police state that we've suddenly entered with the flick of a switch...I must have been a jack-booted thug/Imperial Stormtrooper the entire time while at work. Facist police states don't happen overnight. Bureaucracies as large as the United States Government most certainly do not adapt to change that quickly. It is worse than trying to get a squadron of blue-water supercarriers to make a pinpoint ninety-degree course change on 10 seconds notice. That is to say, it does not happen that quickly.
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It sounds like you're suggesting that bad things can't happen because beauraucracy is too slow or inefficient, but my reading of history doesn't indicate at all that dysfunctional governments means oppression rolls out slowly.
p.s. Fuck Intuit http://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/Tax_Maze_Report.pdf
Oh, Senator Warren's office is missing some interesting points about other blockers that come from the Congress itself. One of those just got fixed this year and had ADP as well as other payroll processors in an uproar. Would you believe that it is only this year that your W-2 and 1099 series information is due to CAWR on the same due date as getting it to you? Previously they had six more months to send that crap in. If the Combined Annual Wage Reporting unit (W-2 data goes to Social Security first then it goes to IRS) is only just now in 2017 getting the data same time as taxpayers due to draconian legislation put forward by Congressman Jim Renacci of Ohio...everything else would take some time.
There are some temporal mechanics that that report kinda overlooks. Nice ideas and all but we'd really have to adopt what the UK is doing with live reporting per paycheck. That's actually a pretty hard burden for small employers. ADP and some accounting firms have been complaining about getting all the wage & income documents out the door on time or else they face $50 fines per person if the information is late.
Congress is complicit in things taking time too. Checks and balances in play especially when a Senator's staff overlooks the role of Congress in screwing up the mechanics of something.
This is probably tangentially relevant: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2802308