Jonathan Scott Miller

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Applied Public Choice Theory, Regulatory Capture Edition

Intuit, the makers of Turbo Tax, have spent $11.5 million (as of 2013) lobbying politicians to keep the federal income tax a complex mess.
Posted by Jon Miller at 6:50 PM
Labels: economics, politics

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