Re: a bit OT- Fully Open Standards for Citizen-Government

  > (Not that any of it is going to eliminate the need for TurboTax because 
  > the complexity is in the ever changing tax code, not the actual submittion 
  > method).

*That* suggests a good agenda:  get them to write the actual tax code
in a machine processable format.

It's tricky because:

  (a) you have to design the language in which to express the
      rules

  (b) you have to make writing in that language an attractive
      option for the people authoring the rules


(There have been academic experiments in this area, as i recall.
Google may turn some up.)

-t