DARK PATTERNS: THE ODIOUS WORLD OF TAX SOFTWARE

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Join us, as we plunge into unexplored depths, into hell itself, to discover why you have to PAY TO DO YOUR FUCKING TAXES IN THIS COUNTRY. SOURCES: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24071005/irs-direct-file-free-tax-software-turbotax-review OTHER PODS @vanquishedpod @idkypod @whyyoumadpod MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica

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0:00.0	Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.
0:10.0	The government gives them the drugs, bills bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law,
0:16.0	and then wants us to sing God bless America.
0:19.0	No, no, no, not God bless America.
0:21.6	God damn America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
0:26.6	God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human.
0:31.6	God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is tough and she is supreme.
0:43.6	Okay, hello, everyone.
0:45.8	It's April fools.
0:49.0	I bet's what you feel like, I bet, because it's April,
0:51.6	and you have to do your taxes.
0:53.5	Folks, that joke is, uh, that sucked.
0:58.7	You thought it was April 1st, April Fool's.
1:01.8	It's April later than that.
1:04.0	The whole damn month is for fools.
1:07.5	Well, you know, what I was been.
1:08.4	There is Easter happened in March this year.
1:12.7	So April is really searching for another theme.
1:15.4	And I guess the Fool is the only other...
1:17.8	April Fool's Day is really the only other holiday that's happened this month
1:20.8	unless you are of the Jewish persuasion.
1:25.9	Well, there's also 420.
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