TurboTax Devilry

By Leo Gura - January 16, 2020

The above news story explains how Inuit, maker of the popular tax filing software TurboTax, spent millions of dollars to lobby the US government against easy and free tax filing options. That’s is devilry 101. That’s how self-bias corrupts all governments.

Intuit is a publicly traded company with a market cap of $69 billion, $2.25 billion cash-on-hand, 8,2000 employees, and the CEO’s salary is $21 million per year . Yet they cannot help rigging the government in their favor, regardless of how it hurts average citizens. Because their concern is not what’s best for the citizens but what is best for Intuit. Why does the CEO get paid $21 million per year? Precisely because he works night and day to ensure that such devilry passes successfully. But of course he is not conscious of what he is doing. In his mind all of this is justified as normal, necessary, and even good. Because it is good! It’s good for his survival which is linked to the survival of the company. You don’t earn $21 million per year by being nice. You earn it by being a devil.

Now imagine that this is happening on a massive scale, with thousands of companies rigging the government to increase their profits. Now it’s apparent why government is so ineffective and stuck. It’s being debased from a thousands sides by a thousand parties.

Our government is like a noblewoman turned cheap whore, getting fucked in every orifice by an eager gaggle of desperate men. But if you stop and ask any one particular man in the gaggle whether there is any problem with this situation, he will say No, because it is normal, all his friends are doing it, the gaggle is 1000 men long, and how else is he supposed to get his needs met? And of course his need is insatiable. You’d think $21 million per year would be enough to be satisfy, but that only whets the appetite. And beside which, even if one of them quit in disgust, another one would eagerly take his place.

This is why getting money out of politics is the #1 most important political reform. And also why it’s the most difficult.

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