2) See, the government actually already has a lot of the relevant information.
But rather than make that available to the taxpayer, it sends a form asking you to enter your income, investments, etc.
Asking you to tell the IRS what it already knows.
3) The consequences of messing it up can be years of lawsuits and frustration.
Filing taxes is basically the government issuing you a test, judging how well you do, as it is actually collecting new information.
4) And above all that--
filing taxes just sucks. It's messy and annoying and expensive and for a lot of people anxiety producing.
All to create a form the IRS already has!
5) So why can't the IRS be transparent and helpful with the taxpayers?
Why can't it give you the information it has?
You could still make all the decisions about how to file -- but for many people it'd be a whole lot easier.
6) Anyway, when I was growing, for a few years my dad spent most of his time traveling too and from Sacramento--CA's capital--helping the state build out the ability to send residents the information it already had. For a lot of people, filing taxes when from days to minutes.
7) But, of course, the harder, more frustrating, and more poorly defined filing taxes becomes, the more it costs citizens to file.
And those costs go, in decent part, to tax filing software producers.
Anything that made the system better was bad for their bottom line.
8) So, they killed it.
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It is centered around the observation that, this season, Lamar Jackson has been better on early downs while Justin Herbert has been better on late downs.
Why is this????
3) Sample sizes, mostly.
The sample sizes so far are pretty small -- around 60 3rd down attempts per team. The difference between the Ravens and Chargers completion % is about 14% (35% vs 49%); the standard deviation due to raw luck here is ~40%/sqrt(60)*sqrt(2) ~ 7%
2) so, if all relationships were monogamous and heterosexual, and there were as many women in the world as men, then the effect of “economic pressures” on the ratio of single men to single women…
3) …would be null, because there would by definition be exactly the same number of each. There would be some number of couples, and that would be exactly the number of men and of women in a relationship.
2) We're extremely thankful for the work that the Securities Commission has put into building out a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets--one of the first in the world.
3) Having a comprehensive, nimble regulatory framework with oversight is essential to ensuring that the crypto industry is safe, robust, and growing.
We're excited to be one of the first global crypto exchanges to be part of a comprehensive spot + derivatives regulatory regime.