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clear. is it happening? yes so i took a tour actually of an irs processing center last summer, and like the whole thing was just wild. ah we just heard about how they re coming into the 21st century. i think it would be nice if they enter the late 20th century because they have all of these disco era technologies there they like, are still using cobalt for those watching out there who know what that is. that s a very old programming language. a lot of the documents don t even get scanned in. there are workers who manually type digit by digit . the numbers from the paper return into the computer, which, as you can imagine, can result in a lot of human error. even if people are as fastidious as they can be, so they need these. it upgrades they have been asking for these. it upgrades for a very long time. the challenge has partly been management, but largely that it s difficult to make these long term investments if you have ah, a lack of predictability in the funding stream over the next

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