Slashdot Mirror
No EZ Fix For The IRS
meltoast writes "Apparently the IRS is storing all of the taxpaying histories of 227 million individuals and corporations in a system that still runs code written in 1962. CIO Magazine is running a story on the IRS's nearly failed $8 billion modernization attempt that includes missed deadlines, cost overruns of over $200 million and four CIO's in seven years."
Stiff them on $2 and get fined up the ass.
We could create a few thousand temporary (2-3 year) jobs for those folks on welfare or currently out of work and using redundant strategies for error correction, manually enter the data into the new formats.
Yes lets take unemployed people and put them to work manually getting to know the interworkings of the IRS and its databases. They sure wouldn't be tempted to abuse their position would they?
The problem with canning the program is that it's been done already, several times.
This is about the 15th time the IRS has tried to "modernize" their computer systems and failed in the attempt, wasting Billions each time.
Every couple of years they change the old project's goals and pitch a new one to Congress asking for more money.
The only easy solution is to abolish the income tax and with it the IRS. All the rest of the possible solution sets include trying to get unmotivated IRS bureaucrats to actually do their job without falling afoul of civil service union regulations, a task that may not be possible.
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
he-he... data entry will beoutsoursed to India.. he-he.. using federal $$$.. he-he.. I just can't wait for the scandal to develop... he-he...
Just because I don't care, it doesn't mean I don't understand. Homer J. Simpson
How about simply abolishing the corporate income tax completely? The corporate taxes are already vastly more complicated than personal taxes are, and they're far, far less equitable. On of the biggest problems with them is that they're so inequitable that many, if not most, large profitable corporations pay no income tax at all because of all of the loopholes in the system. Abolishing the tax completely would obviously make it more fair- everyone would be paying the same rate- and wouldn't even hurt the government that much because collections from corporate taxes are already so low. Even better (and quite possibly why it won't happen), it would prevent corporations from giving huge campaign donations to legislators in an attempt to get new loopholes written into the tax laws. It might even encourage more companies to move to the Unites States, bringing in more high-paying jobs at their headquarters.
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
Sorry, but in our beautifull country (germany) you cannot get canned once your a gouvernment employee.
Maybe thats why nothing ever really changes,
and Billions are spent on bullshit here.
we need an "-1 Plain wrong" moderation option!