From: sico@aps.hacktic.nl (Sico Bruins)
Date: Sun, 8 May 94 16:21:54 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: IRS plans
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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).

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