[86940] in Cypherpunks
Re: y2k as ideological opportunity.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rabid Wombat)
Mon Sep 22 16:37:58 1997
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:42:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
To: Chip Mefford <cmefford@avwashington.com>
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v03102807b04849f2a784@[207.79.65.77]>
Reply-To: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
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 ...
