The IRS Would Make a Lousy Tax Preparer

Maybe it's the late winter.  If you've noticed an odd absence of a common news meme this April, you're not alone.  This is normally the time of year when breathless liberal columnists come out with articles arguing that the IRS should prepare people's taxes for them.  Just last year, there were two of them that made the rounds that you might have seen--one by Matt Yglesias of Slate and one by ProPublica.  Those were hardly the only ones.