Were it not for the lobbying efforts of corporate parasites like Intuit, nearly half of all tax returns in the US could be pre-populated accurately, saving taxpayers billions of dollars in tax preparation fees.
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The US federal minimum wage is now worth 28% less than its value at the last increase, 13 years ago, and 41% less than its historical high point in 1968
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the image above is from the Washington Post writeup of the research
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2023/irs-enforcement-costs-congress-funding/
after the zillionth time of cleaning up US price index data, I finally made an #RStats package 📦 to ease the pain.
now you too can have the CPI at your fingertips: https://economic.github.io/realtalk/
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
https://www.theonion.com/crypto-leaders-call-for-infusion-of-20-million-dopes-to-1850544377
when you have to make an additional separate pot of unsalted polenta to mix into your way too salty original batch
@kjhealy@mastodon.social I also love his other experiments! Lost my mind watching the rent-a-dog simulator with Gary Numan music
@levampyre@chaos.social sorry about that!
The proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger will reduce grocery store worker wages by $330 million annually.
About 750,000 grocery store employees in over 50 metro areas will be affected by the merger
@whitten@mas.to @katrinatransfem@mastodon.social Haha, sorry, Andy, I didn't realize that was you 😊. I love your paper, thank you for doing it!
I also really liked the summary of failure situations -- made me think that there could be, in principle, easy ways of folks providing info at the beginning of the year that would be incorporated into the pre-populated return, like number of dependents
@whitten@mas.to @katrinatransfem@mastodon.social These factors are important for many taxpayers, but as the paper shows the IRS can still impute returns accurately for close to half of taxpayers, and also half of those with inaccurate pre-populated returns just need to make a single change for an accurate return (like the details you mentioned).