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Date:  Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:18:58 -0400
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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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