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By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 14th, 2010 at 11:20 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Go ahead, put this URL into your browser: http://irs.gov/. That’s right: There is no DNS record for irs.gov. Anyone who tries to visit the IRS’s website has to take a guess and add www to it in order to get there.

Double Facepalm

That’s twice today I’ve had to deal with user-hostile government at work. First the FCC made its public comment forms as obnoxious and difficult as possible, and now the IRS wants to hinder people trying to get their taxes done on time.

The elected Democrats truly are just idiots in their love of government. There really is just something wrong with them.

Let’s make this a government hall of shame open thread.

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  • http://todaysasbestos.wordpress.com scotteiland

    I mean, besides wage war?

    Social Security – broke
    Medicare – broke
    The VA – inefficient. And the hospitals are a microcosm of what health care will become if Obama/Pelosi/Reid get their way.
    The Post Office – Are you kidding me?
    The Department of Energy – Produces nothing.
    The Department of Education – Produces Mission Statements
    The Department of the Interior- Produces regulations.
    The EPA – does nothing but strangle businesses with red tape and regulatio.

    So, of course, the solution to make all this better is to increase the size of it, right?

    As for the IRS…the income tax should be ABOLISHED.

  • tokm908

    I have given up on this one because I think it is done purposely. On whitehouse.gov, specifically http://www.whitehouse.gov/public-forms/sf278 there is a financial disclosure form which you can supposedly fill out and receive representatives SF278 information via email. One problem, you fill out the form and submit it and you are taken to a 404 not found page. You can’t tell if your request was submit or not. I called the switchboard who transferred me to a voice mail that does not return calls, and I left inquiries with the Whitehouse Press Office (the form says to contact them if there is a delay). Transparency Like You’ve Never Seen It Before…my a$s.

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/node/613/done?sid=22274

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    graft
    wasting money
    crushing dissent
    taking money
    crushing business
    manufacturing crises
    demonizing groups of citizens.

  • jackhammer

    I want to talk about a positive experience..with of all things, the Registry of Motor Vehicles (as it is called in Massachusetts.

    I have to say their website is great. You can renew your license online, no need for a new picture, just answer 4 questions, pop in your CC# and it gets mailed ot you in a week.

    If you really love heading to the RMV, you can see in realtime how long the wait is at your local branch. They don’t have any phone numbers for the local branches, but there was a call center that was actually in state (or everyone in India is watching Good Will Hunting and Departed all day). I had to wait about 3 minutes for someone, but that is still acceptable, and the woman who answered helpes me a lot. You see I currently live abroad, and I needed to have my license sent to my aunt without changing my home address….she was great about sending me out an extension to my foreign address and inputing my aunt’s address as my mailing, adn then I just filled it out.

    I am anticipating that it will have worked, but I was truly surprised how well it worked.

    I also have always had a relatively easy time getting my passport renewed, be it in Boston, or abroad. The new security procedures are a pain in the a**, but otherwise a not unpleasant experience…and a hell of a lot better than renewing the Canadian one I have (only lasts 5 years, all centralized through ontario, takes 6 weeks….)

    So as much as I have had bad experiences, they certainly haven’t all been….

    But aside form the IRS once a year and the RMV once every 5 and the passport thing once every 10, I do try and avoid contact with the government.

  • redohio

    Can you explain to me what it means to “take a guess and type “www?”

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    This from the LA Times.

    Joe Biden update: He meets on transparency today. But the meeting is closed.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    www.irs.gov has a DNS record. irs.gov does not.

    So if you type irs.gov into your browser you get nothing.

    If you type www.irs.gov in, it’ll work.

  • http://www.scragged.com petrarch

    … that wasn’t the result of waste, fraud, or abuse, but simply the scrupulous application of government contracting regulations.

    http://scragged.com/articles/yes-virginia-a-298-hammer-really-costs-our-government-100.aspx

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  • smorgasbord

    Neil,
    You need to keep up on current events. The Fair Tax has passed and the IRS has been abolished. No use having a web page for something that doesn’t exist.

    Please let me have this dream for as long as I can dream it.