You state that you're upset that you pay TurboTax to "do your taxes that you basically do yourself"- no, you are doing them yourself. TurboTax is software that allows you to prepare your own return. TurboTax does not prepare your return, they do not process your return, and they do not have anything to do with how long it takes for the IRS to send your refund.
You use TurboTax's software to prepare your tax return. Then you use their gateway to e-file it. Then the IRS processes it - the delays are generally there or, often, in the taxpayer's rush to be "first" which means errors due to taxpayer missteps, due to IRS not being ready, and all sorts of other things.
You are talking about "wants" in your spending. And no one is messing with your "livelihood".
Things are mess right now, for sure, but your anger is misdirected.
IT IS STILL PROCESSING - that means exactly what it says. THAT THE IRS IS STILL WORKING ON YOUR RETURN. You are still in line - with millions of other people. Chill.
