1. Not everyone files a state return. I don't.
2. Entering $0 or saying "no" to quite a long list of irrelevant questions is no shortcut. It's more like a nanny inquisition that just prolongs the agony of filing and may create confusion about what items might still be deductible above and beyond the standard deduction.
3. If TT insists on asking the irrelevant questions, then the software can at least tell the user to enter $0 or no if, for him or her, the standard deduction is a done deal. TT doesn't do that now. It's not so hard to build a little more intelligence into the question stream to make things easier for different categories of users.
