From: Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 23:42:51 -0800 (PST)
To: "Adamsc" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: just what we #$%^&* needed from big brother....
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996 05:41:52 +0000 (GMT), attila wrote:

>> >Welcome to 1984+  what else with useless and illegally constituted
>> >bureaucrats add to their total infringement of every facet of our life. 

>> >-.NEW SYSTEM LINKS LENDERS, IRS

>> >-.information for the previous couple of years.  If the cross-check turns up a
>> >-.more than $10,000 discrepancy between the earnings claimed on the application
>> >-.and those declared for tax purposes, the IRS has the option of pursuing the
>> 
>> This isn't actually the end of the world.  In fact we should be applauding
>> their efforts to make their abominable system more efficient.  Whether it
>> should be scraped is another issue.   In other words, as long as they are
>> going to do it, they might as well do it right.  
>> 
>	my point is more towards: "...here goes another direct batch of
>    information directly into the federal computers --home location and
>    the link between real and 'imagined' income which immediately opens
>    the door for the IRS CID to start a tax-fraud investigation which
>    quickly leads to liens on your property, etc. while they audit the
>    living life out of you.  just one more piece, a major one at that, in
>    the national databank ready to persecute you....

Yes.  I was just trying to point out that as long as they are going to do
something, it's refreshing to see that they do it right.  Whether they should
be doing it at all is an entirely different matter and I have little doubt
that most of the list subscribers believe, as I do, that there should be some
major reforms.

Still, government incompetency is rather frustrating and helps inspire
cynicism.s

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