**The Dirty Truth About Corporate America**

In today's corporate world, it seems like companies are more focused on making money than on doing what's right by their customers and employees. Take TurboTax, for example. The company that promised to make tax preparation easier has been found to be ripping off its customers in the process.

Get this - my mortgage deduction is something I have to worry about every year. I'm going to have to do some things, like camera equipment from my office, because it's not allowed by the IRS. And then I get a postcard when tax time comes around and says we think you owe us this much if you agree to pay. It's like they're taking advantage of people who just want to file their taxes easily. But in America, getting people to pay their taxes is hard enough as it is.

And don't even get me started on TurboTax. The company has been found to be lobbying the government for years, which should raise some red flags. The fact that they're making so much money off of people's tax preparation needs shouldn't come as a surprise. But what's really interesting is how they've managed to get away with it for so long.

It all started when Frontier Communications bought Spectrum, a company that was leaving the LA area. When this happened, customers were getting calls after calls on their radio show, complaining about the awful service they were receiving. But did anyone do anything about it? No, until Corey Doctorow spoke out against Frontier's underpowered and underperforming physical plant.

The FTC finally stepped in and required Frontier to stop lying to its customers and charging them for high-speed internet that they weren't actually getting. But the damage was already done. And to make matters worse, Frontier had to pay $8.5 million to California for investigation and litigation costs. But what really gets me is that only 250,000 of the affected customers are going to get a check for $25 each.

This settlement seems like a slap on the wrist to me. The fact that whoever negotiated this deal should be ashamed of themselves. And as for Frontier, they're still making money off of their customers' desperation. They've even gone so far as to charge people to cancel their service, which is unheard of in America.

But here's the thing: it's not just TurboTax and Frontier that are doing this. There are plenty of other companies out there that are taking advantage of their customers in some way or another. And until we hold them accountable, things are never going to change.

So what can be done about it? Well, for starters, companies like TurboTax need to be held accountable for their actions. They should have to come on TV and apologize for lying to their customers. They should have to pay restitution to the people they've hurt. And maybe, just maybe, we'll start to see some real change in this industry.

But until then, we're stuck with companies that are more focused on making money than on doing what's right. And that's a sad state of affairs indeed.

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as just like a service to taxpayers to make it easier and they went to congress and they said look we're going to give you a free version it's going to be very easy uh for people to file it will be open and then only sophisticated people will need to pay for our full product here of course it never happened it's just a lie and then you see this lawsuit oh it gets me mad i feel every year this one i do my mom's taxes she's 89 so her taxes are very simple every year i select free i want the free turbo tax i end up paying 89 every year no matter what 100 the same this is this is our broadest point of agreement on the panel which i'm very excited about because they deserve they deserve the ire the combined higher for the three of us but is 141 million enough right now do more do more make it make it make it hurt because what happened i'm not making a billion because what happens is these companies say well it's cost doing business we made 800 million i'll give you 144. 18 of those 300 something million people in the us 89 times a good chunk of them and you can definitely be okay with that 141 million dollar fine they will have to suspend their free free free ad campaign pay restitution to 4.4 million taxpayers so maybe you know maybe this will maybe this will cost them a little bit they should have their ceo on video apology apologize that as yes sorry america you know we knew we were ripping you off but we did it anyway you can't charge these people enough humiliate them instead make them comfortable make them come on tv and say we lied we did it we did it we lied i don't understand why people have to do so much of the heavy lifting here yes like many other countries the the the government has a lot of this information already like my mortgage deduction right get that from the like you know how much money i made you know uh my mortgage deductions like i'm gonna have to do some things like you know camera equipment from my office to to deduct that right there will be some like work in finland you get a postcard when tax time comes it says we think you owe this much if you agree send us a check right that's it um i can't imagine that happening in america i mean it's hard enough getting people to pay their taxes yeah you also got big turbo tax lobbying the government well that's the real problem thank you corrupt software yeah that's the real problem uh you know the federal government has a free file program okay uh and then and then finally and this is fine i love this segment i'm gonna do this every week now this is great this is this is fine this is when we get a little this is fine this is fine this is fine the world's burning but this is where the dog uh and this is fine frontier oh man when frontier bought all the customers from i think it was spectrum they were leaving the la area the la market so frontier bought all the customers i was getting call after call on the radio show just people were it was awful service it was terrible uh corey doctorow's gone off on frontier about you know intentionally keeping their physical plant underpowered and underperforming ftc said and this is as of may 5th it has moved to stop internet service provider frontier from communications from lying to customers and charging them for high-speed internet it fails to deliver they were suited last may uh it took them a year but on thursday they agreed to a settlement admitting no no no no admission of guilt with the ftc and district attorneys in los angeles county and riverside county representing the people of california but it's again it's a slap on the wrist frontier has to pay eight and a half million dollars to california for investigation and litigation costs and what do they give customers who were harmed 250 000 will be distributed to frontier customers you're going to get a check for a buck 25. whoever negotiated that settlement needs to be that's that is professional malfeasance right there's such 8 and a half million to california 250 000 to the consumers what a joke no no no that whoever prosecuted that case for the government they need to go find another line of work and they probably will and they probably leave this settlement and go into that it works for the higher people the same people yeah go to work for frontier frontier also has to let customers cancel service at no charge yes yes frontier was one of many many cable companies that charge you to cancel service you can cancel the service but it's gonna cost you what other business in america if you went to your dry cleaner and said i'm gonna go to the direct cleaner across the street oh that'll be 48 what no one no other business does that cable companies do so they can't do that anymore oh well that's good um and they will also uh discount the bills of california customers who have not been notified they're getting dsl service that is much slower than the advertised speed much slower uh the judge will have to approve this although the ftc approved it for nothing it was a slam dunk and that is our segment this is fine i think all these companies should have to come on to quit and grovel before you leave right it should be a judge show just like judge judy the judge and then you set the fine i would watch that show sorry i did it i'm sorry youthis is twit it's time to play this is fine nvidia fined five and a half million dollars for allegedly why is it allegedly if they got fined we can say they did it hiding how many gaming gpus were sold to crypto miners sec said you misled investors by reporting a big boost in revenue related to gaming without alluding to the fact that no it's not gaming it's crypto mining we're just talking about that the problem is a five and a half million dollar fine for nvidia is nothing it's the cost of doing business and to it paying a little bit bigger fine 141 million dollars for free free free turbo tax ads award free free free no i think 141 million probably stings a little bit more but again these companies are making the biggest scammers there's total attacks man yes i feel so strongly about that one you know part of like turbo taxes they came into agreement an agreement with the united states government who wanted to develop their own uh tax filing software as just like a service to taxpayers to make it easier and they went to congress and they said look we're going to give you a free version it's going to be very easy uh for people to file it will be open and then only sophisticated people will need to pay for our full product here of course it never happened it's just a lie and then you see this lawsuit oh it gets me mad i feel every year this one i do my mom's taxes she's 89 so her taxes are very simple every year i select free i want the free turbo tax i end up paying 89 every year no matter what 100 the same this is this is our broadest point of agreement on the panel which i'm very excited about because they deserve they deserve the ire the combined higher for the three of us but is 141 million enough right now do more do more make it make it make it hurt because what happened i'm not making a billion because what happens is these companies say well it's cost doing business we made 800 million i'll give you 144. 18 of those 300 something million people in the us 89 times a good chunk of them and you can definitely be okay with that 141 million dollar fine they will have to suspend their free free free ad campaign pay restitution to 4.4 million taxpayers so maybe you know maybe this will maybe this will cost them a little bit they should have their ceo on video apology apologize that as yes sorry america you know we knew we were ripping you off but we did it anyway you can't charge these people enough humiliate them instead make them comfortable make them come on tv and say we lied we did it we did it we lied i don't understand why people have to do so much of the heavy lifting here yes like many other countries the the the government has a lot of this information already like my mortgage deduction right get that from the like you know how much money i made you know uh my mortgage deductions like i'm gonna have to do some things like you know camera equipment from my office to to deduct that right there will be some like work in finland you get a postcard when tax time comes it says we think you owe this much if you agree send us a check right that's it um i can't imagine that happening in america i mean it's hard enough getting people to pay their taxes yeah you also got big turbo tax lobbying the government well that's the real problem thank you corrupt software yeah that's the real problem uh you know the federal government has a free file program okay uh and then and then finally and this is fine i love this segment i'm gonna do this every week now this is great this is this is fine this is when we get a little this is fine this is fine this is fine the world's burning but this is where the dog uh and this is fine frontier oh man when frontier bought all the customers from i think it was spectrum they were leaving the la area the la market so frontier bought all the customers i was getting call after call on the radio show just people were it was awful service it was terrible uh corey doctorow's gone off on frontier about you know intentionally keeping their physical plant underpowered and underperforming ftc said and this is as of may 5th it has moved to stop internet service provider frontier from communications from lying to customers and charging them for high-speed internet it fails to deliver they were suited last may uh it took them a year but on thursday they agreed to a settlement admitting no no no no admission of guilt with the ftc and district attorneys in los angeles county and riverside county representing the people of california but it's again it's a slap on the wrist frontier has to pay eight and a half million dollars to california for investigation and litigation costs and what do they give customers who were harmed 250 000 will be distributed to frontier customers you're going to get a check for a buck 25. whoever negotiated that settlement needs to be that's that is professional malfeasance right there's such 8 and a half million to california 250 000 to the consumers what a joke no no no that whoever prosecuted that case for the government they need to go find another line of work and they probably will and they probably leave this settlement and go into that it works for the higher people the same people yeah go to work for frontier frontier also has to let customers cancel service at no charge yes yes frontier was one of many many cable companies that charge you to cancel service you can cancel the service but it's gonna cost you what other business in america if you went to your dry cleaner and said i'm gonna go to the direct cleaner across the street oh that'll be 48 what no one no other business does that cable companies do so they can't do that anymore oh well that's good um and they will also uh discount the bills of california customers who have not been notified they're getting dsl service that is much slower than the advertised speed much slower uh the judge will have to approve this although the ftc approved it for nothing it was a slam dunk and that is our segment this is fine i think all these companies should have to come on to quit and grovel before you leave right it should be a judge show just like judge judy the judge and then you set the fine i would watch that show sorry i did it i'm sorry you\n"