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On 2018-04-18, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> On 4/16/2018 8:18 PM, Dave Garland wrote:
>> On 4/16/2018 1:42 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>> On Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 9:24:47 PM UTC-4, Charles Richmond wrote:
>>>
>>>>> The price was $90 in 1967 dollars.
>>>>> What is ironic is that I believe one can get a tax software
>>>>> package today for less than that, and the software will not
>>>>> only add up the taxes, but also figure them out.
>>>
>>>> Yes, but...  even with the tax software, there is still the cost of the
>>>> computer...
>>>
>>> Someone said the $90 in 1967 was roughly $600 today.  That is
>>> roughly what a computer costs today.
>>>
>>> And while an adding machine would find multiple uses around
>>> the house, especially for balancing one's checkbook and a few
>>> other household chores (and sometimes for kids' homework*),
>>> a computer would also have plenty of uses around the home,
>>> such as email and word processing. 
>> 
>
> Now the United States office of Internal Revenue has a new simplified 
> tax form needing only two items:
>
> 1)  How much did you make last year???
>
> 2)  Send it in!!!
>
>

I remember Norm in `Cheers' who was supposed to be an accoutant, when
the US revenue 'simplyfied' the tax sustem, someone asked him how was he
coping with the changes. "Changes, what changes?"



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