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Reduce costs via passing a law that will increase the ability to automate government work.

Created by P.J. on May 25, 2015

Currently the IRS has to manually enter data from tax forms into their computer system, while having a computer vision system would be much cheeper. However this is not possible because people disfigure their tax forms--such as by smearing mustard on them--forcing humans to do this repetitive task with relatively low productivity.

If there were a law making it a felony to disfigure tax forms then costs could be cut significantly by replacing these workers with robots.

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