NODE 6198bc59Re: y2k as ideological opportunity.
Chip Mefford <cmefford@avwashington.com>Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:51:18 +0800
>>[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
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NODE 15386a74Re: y2k as ideological opportunity.
Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:30:05 +0800
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 ...