Re: y2k as ideological opportunity.
[IRS collection mechanism collapses due to y2k problem]
If such a thing actually happened, I strongly suspect they'd activate the contingency plan that was developed to maintain tax collection after nuclear war; a flat 20% sales tax, collected (I think) by surviving Post Office employees.
Come to think of it, that might be better than what we have now....
Naw, its gonna be real simple and clean. The bid goes out, Billgatus of Borg brings in a crapload of DEC/NT partner machines, puts 500 programmers on porting the tasking and data to Office 98, retrains the IRS on Office, Slides right past Oct 1999 without a hitch, you bring up M$ money on yer desktop and yer Fed Tax Check goes straight to Redmond, who in turn pays out a percentage to their new partners, the Fed. The US of MS, hahahahaha luv chipper Zz zZ |\ z _,,,---,,_ /,`.-'`' _ ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'_' '---''(_/--' `-'\_)
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Chip Mefford wrote:
[IRS collection mechanism collapses due to y2k problem]
If such a thing actually happened, I strongly suspect they'd activate the contingency plan that was developed to maintain tax collection after nuclear war; a flat 20% sales tax, collected (I think) by surviving Post Office employees.
Come to think of it, that might be better than what we have now....
Naw, its gonna be real simple and clean.
The bid goes out,
Billgatus of Borg brings in a crapload of DEC/NT partner machines, puts 500 programmers on porting the tasking and data to Office 98, retrains the IRS on Office, Slides right past Oct 1999 without a hitch, you
... and delivers "IRS 1999" in August of 2002 ...
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