Relevant Article: More Than Half of Tax Returns E-Filed

The prediction:

By 2010, the federal government will require all income tax returns to be E-Filed.

Those who supposedly cannot afford to E-File have many options available to them to do this for free via the federal government’s easier-extortion system know as Free File.

Currently, every single American citizen has Internet access via public libraries, so that counter-argument is invalid.

The massive amount of paperwork and paper-pushers (and the healthcare for those paper-pushers) involved in processing a tax return will simply grow too expensive for the federal government to continue to allow paper submissions.

They will champion their new plan as a technological advance.

They will state that eliminating paper returns has an enormously beneficial impact on our environment.

It will happen. Mark my words.