April 03, 2024
You want a perfect story to describe how government is NEVER a "solution" and is ALWAYS an impediment?
Remember in the 1970s when fax machines first came on the scene?
Well, the U.S. Post Office at the time claimed that faxes were "mail" and demanded that congress pass a law that forced people to send all fax messages inside a Post Office to someone who would also have to go to a Post Office to pick up the fax... and naturally both would have to pay the Post Office to do this.
Fortunately, congress decided not to bow to the Post Office's wishers on that one.
Regardless, this is the perfect example of how government works to ruin everything.
I had to send a form to the IRS over fees they charged me for their mistake in sending me the wrong return. They screwed up then billed me for their mistake. I was trying to get them to waive the charges.
So I can only send the form by fax, even though faxes are now old tech and nobody uses them anymore.
I had to hunt all over the city to find access to a fax machine, and had to drive ten miles or more to the Fedex store to use it.
This is government in action. And I'll probably STILL get stuck paying them the six hundred bucks they are cheating me out of because of their mistake.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at
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