[86818] in Cypherpunks
Re: y2k as ideological opportunity.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chip Mefford)
Fri Sep 19 11:43:14 1997
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:26:14 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Chip Mefford <cmefford@avwashington.com>
Reply-To: Chip Mefford <cmefford@avwashington.com>
>>[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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