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Article #621883Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 23:39
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 23:39
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<ma...@mail.com> wrote: > 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?" > I never expected the "do your taxes on a postcard", but I got really turned off when they didn't get rid of the loopholes. I wanted a flat tax, with brackets but without deductions and exemptions. -- Pete
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