I can’t think of what fraud it prevents.

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    10 months ago

    It’s 2024, there’s no reason at all it shouldn’t all be automatic.

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      I think a lot of people would have serious reservations about every aspect of their life being instantly and automatically added to a central government database. Yeah, pretty much everything you do is recorded by some government agency somewhere, but ONE agency knowing everything about everyone sounds like a privacy nightmare. Hackers breach ONE system and suddenly everything is out.

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        9 months ago

        They already have all the information, they’re clearly just mismanaging it.

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          9 months ago

          They don’t, though. The IRS doesn’t know where your kids go to daycare, or how much you’re paying for it, until you claim it as a deduction on your taxes.

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            9 months ago

            Then how do they “catch” people? The data is there or they couldn’t.