Originally Posted by reno96teg
have any proof of that? i ask because just today i was at an IBM iSeries seminar, and of all of the many corporations in the room, every one of them has upgraded their financial systems or are in the process of doing so. this holds true for all user group events i've been involved in, in at least the past year.
They may have upgraded or are in the process of upgrading their financial systems, but I bet all their old batch process stuff like payroll and whatnot is still written in COBOL. It may have a pretty web front end, it may be upgraded to COBOL 2000 specs, but I'll bet you the back end of it would make you hurl.
Originally Posted by Tobra
Obviously people would still file some sort of return, refund the money if they don't make enough. If they are illegals, they are probably not going to file a return, so you keep all of it, if they do file a return, you pack their asses back to Salvador or whatever.
So what you're going to do is fully tax people below the poverty line, and then refund the money at the end of the year. That is just going to work
awesomely.
That way when they get back all that money at the end of the year, they will get in a time machine to go back in time to buy the things they needed six months ago and keep themselves from getting evicted and make sure their children are well fed.
I think you're completely out of touch with how low income families live.
Originally Posted by Tobra
I honestly had not considered people sending money to their family overseas. If they are able to save the money to support their family abroad, what the hell, they are still living here and spending cash while earning dough to send overseas. As far as spending out of the country and bringing things in, we need to improve the control of our borders anyway.
I think you underestimate the amount of money that people are sending overseas. In many cases, a son or husband, etc. will come to America while the remainder of his family stays overseas. Their sole support comes from his paychecks.
Originally Posted by Tobra
As far as all the accounting applications being completely archaic and outmoded, well, I think you are just mistaken. Even if you are not, software ain't rocket science, unless of course you are doing it for NASA
90-some percent of the cost of software is development. Once you have it, maintenance is very cheap. This causes many corporations to hold onto ancient software solutions because they still fit their needs.