Friday May 06 1994 10:03, nobody@shell.portal.com wrote: npc> From: nobody@shell.portal.com npc> Newsgroups: list.cypherpunk npc> Message-Id: <199405060803.BAA07640@jobe.shell.portal.com> npc> Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 01:03:12 -0700
From: johnl@iecc.com (John R Levine) Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy Subject: What the IRS is up to
[lots deleted] npc> Through interface with Social Security, with the DMV, with your banking npc> institutions, we really have a lot of information, so why would you, at npc> the end of the year or on April 15th, today, do we ask the post office npc> to encumber themselves with massive numbers of people out there, npc> picking up pieves of paper that you are required to file? npc> ... We could literally file a return for you. This is the future npc> that we'd like to go to." npc> Lest there be any doubt, she was entirely serious, and she clearly npc> expected that that we'd all think this is as wonderful as she does. Yes, well, uh... If they already have all that information, would it *not* be wonderful if they suggested what your return could look like? I know that *I* really hate it everytime some agency (including income tax folk) sends me a pile of forms that I have to fill in with information they mostly already have. Or am I missing something? CU, Sico (sico@aps.hacktic.nl). [PGP public key:] bits/keyID Date User ID 1024/5142B9 1992/09/09 Sico Bruins <Fido: 2:280/404> Key fingerprint = 16 9A E1 12 37 6D FB 09 F6 AD 55 C6 BB 25 AC 25 (InterNet: sico@aps.hacktic.nl)