[ale] Rant[ish]: government and states requiring proprietary software

[mike at trausch.us]

On 09/16/2012 09:36 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> I use intuit.  They probably do a better job with my taxes than the
> IRS would.  Didn't the IRS spend billions of dollars a decade ago to
> revamp their 1960's 1970's computer tech, then trash the whole
> project because it wouldn't work?  I'm not against all govt agencies,
> my wife works for one.  However, they're not known for being bastions
> of efficiency or technical advancement.

The last time I let TurboTax do my taxes, it failed to properly find all
my refund.  I do them myself as a result these days.

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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