TRUTH HURTS
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<FEBRUARY 12 '98: Just this week, the agency's technology guru, Arthur A. Gross, announced he is quitting, reportedly after clashing with Rossotti over the strategy to modernize the agency's aging computer system.
DECEMBER '97: A leading congressional expert on Year 2000, Rep. Steve Horn, R-Calif., expressed strong confidence in the IRS' assistant commissioner for technology, Arthur Gross, and other top management.
''They're a first-rate team,'' Horn said. ''If any agency can do it, Gross will do it. He's got a proven track record. ... I look for good things from IRS.''
USA Today, December 22, 1998
usatoday.com
What did Gross say in December? The truth?
FORBES December 1, 1997: IRS Computers will Fail
Dr. Edward Yardeni
Chief economist, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell
ARTHUR GROSS, Chief Information Officer at the IRS, [has said] that the IRS might fail to fix its computers for the year 2000 problem and that the consequences of such a failure could be a calamity for the government and the economy.
NOW Arthur Gross was forced to resign. The story just gets worse and worse.
The only good thing here is, I won't be paying taxes in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 ........
Maybe I'll spend all that money in Marin!
Cheryl :-)
P.S. Hope you're not getting too much rain or mudslides. |
