Re: Industry cheers defeat of federal excise tax

On Wed, 31 May 2006 20:09:35 GMT Al Balmer <albalmer@xxxxxxx> wrote in
article <0str725c3gpbvm9lucssq7b22jgcs8gjvg@xxxxxxx>:

On Wed, 31 May 2006 15:36:56 -0400, Frank Tabor <ftabor@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

http://www.rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=26443

Here's the scary part:
"The Treasury Department said the Internal Revenue Service is working
on a simplified method for individuals to use to claim a refund on
their 2006 tax returns."

They've already simplified the tax returns so much that I can't do
them by hand any more.

Yep, I'm old enough to remember doing income tax returns with nothing
but a pencil.

My father, who retired as an accountant in '81, did his ledgers in pen.
When he bothered to reconcile his checkbook, he used a calculator, then
checked his results with pen and paper.

I used to watch him add columns of numbers then full height of ledger
paper by running his finger down the column at a speed faster than I
could just read the numbers.
--
Frank Tabor
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