Majority of our budget (~73%) is locked up in "mandatory spending", which is majority Social Security and Medicare. Almost half of our discretionary spending is defense. Overall it's ~14% of our overall budget. That said, it's still obscene, and still ~6x what the feds pay for education.

Why stop at executive branch? Congressmen and senators get classified briefings too!

I’ll say third. He also admonished the Republican Party if they banned abortion it was also their responsibility to open their homes to all the unwanted babies that’d suddenly be in the foster system. At least he’s consistently pro-life, not just anti-abortion

The topic at issue in this LPT less the quality of their tax filings and more the underhanded tactics that make their services feel necessary to so many people. When I was renting out part of my house to friends I went with them and they did fine, but now I have a simpler situation and use FreeTaxUSA to avoid supporting their lobbyist budget

Not giving the big box companies your tax information means they have to buy it to aggregate it, and not paying them to file your taxes means there’s even less money for them to bribe senators—I mean, lobby for keeping the tax code so convoluted that you need to pay an expert to file your taxes.