OP-ED: Inside the buildings where quiet decisions end lives
"Tax law asks you to detach outcome from feeling – to reduce the messy sprawl of human life into numbers that fit neatly into columns. You determine what is owed. What is permitted."
Author: Richard Dur
The building doesn’t look like much. They never do, buildings like this.
A freestanding facility set back from the road, brick and glass, practical landscaping – the sort of place you could pass a hundred times and never really see. The exterior is a neutral grey. There is no sign that announces what happens inside in language plain enough to disturb you. Not even listed business hours. Just a nondescript name.
And a door that is locked to the outside.
Buildings like this are designed to pass unnoticed.
