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My biggest fear about the government is just taxes. There's this routine,

bichomic Joe Zimmerman. I worry about it all year long because other countries the government

will tell you what you owe and then you just have to pay it. It feels especially punchy this time of

year. Here the government's like okay what do you think you owe us? I have no idea just tell me.

No, we gotta add it up. What happens if I add it up wrong you could go to jail? Oh no.

That's terrifying. I think the comic is getting at kind of this bizarre situation that we all

live in. I played the whole routine for a pro-publica reporter Justin Elliott. Justin has spent a lot

of time digging into the world of online tax prep and he says Zimmerman is right. For the vast

majority of Americans the IRS already knows what we owe. But we then do have to fill out these

complicated forms and do a bunch of arithmetic ourselves or turn to a private company or an accountant

to pay them to do it for us. And this is where Justin's reporting comes in. For years he has been

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