Wednesday, May 17, 2006

story of the day

sloppy cut-and-paste job dooms regressive flat tax.
"We screwed up," [Tax Commissioner Pam] Hendrickson said prior to a Revenue and Taxation Interim Committee hearing.
"In laypersons' terms, the economist 'cut and pasted' the numbers from the wrong spreadsheets. The magnitude of the error, however, is unacceptable," she told legislators.

Who's head will roll for this silly mistake? I know I am not a detail-oriented person at times, but when you are doing something as important as calculating the cost of your boss' key campaign pledge, better double check before you send it off to the legislature.

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