Just like Amtrak is a private company, that just happens to drive government
owned vehicles and get billions of dollars a year in government funds.
If Amtrak really had to exist without subsidies it would cease to exist.
The USPS would probably last a little longer, but it would be interesting to
see it compete on a level playing field with UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc.
Andrew
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From: <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
[mailto:os2-wireless_users-owner@2rosenthals.com] On Behalf Of Lewis G
Rosenthal
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 10:19 PM
To: os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] Library of Congress is confused...
On 08/11/2005 08:23 am, Stan Goodman thus wrote :
> That will be the day -- when the Congress takes an interest in which
format
> applications are to be submitted.
>
> Lewis, please tell them how electronic tax returns are filed.
>
>
:-) Interestingly enough, we don't handle electronic filings in our
office. The rules for submission are that accounting firms with non-CPA
ownership (i.e., any firm wherein at least one of the owners having
greater than a certain minuscule participation) must subject themselves
to some oddball requirements. As an example, while my brother is an
Enrolled Agent (having passed an IRS-designed and administered exam,
which qualifies him to practice before them <all hail the mighty
Service>), I am not. Therefor, I must either pass the exam (I came close
a couple years ago, but you need to pass at least two of the four parts
on the first run; I passed one, and was within a couple points on the
second), or be fingerprinted. Most of you on this list know what a
privacy freak I am, and so I flatly refuse to be fingerprinted like a
common thief. Ergo, Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC doesn't do electronic
filings. Remarkably <snide grin>, we haven't lost any clients over this,
and only a couple actually ask us about electronic filing each year. One
day, when the there's a sea change at the Service, we may yet do them.
Until then, trees are an endangered species around our offices from
January through April, and the LaserJet eats well.
</OT>
On a matter of principle, I agree with Stu. This is a representative
republic (not a democracy, as some mistakenly refer to it). The best
place to lodge complaints about government inadequacy is with our
representatives, though I highly doubt that the Honorable Senators
Schumer or Clinton would listen to me (particularly if they knew how far
to the other side of the aisle I sit in relation to them...). The House
of Representatives would be the best place to start: http://www.house.gov/writerep/.
Meanwhile, I'll still kill a few trees and send paper mail to the
Copyright Office. Hmmm... Let's see: five sheets, assuming I can get it
to fit on one page, plus an envelope, probably brings me over the 2oz
mark. So, that's some extra postage to the US - oh, that's right, the
"private company" which has the monopoly on first class mail isn't a
"government" entity anymore...right... Sounds like a revenue-generating
plan, if you ask me. ;-)
--
Lewis
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