@mint @Pawlicker @amerika @kirby @pomstan Ha, I remember seeing job ads for $300k/year for COBOL programmers 20 years ago. (Most of these were for porting efforts. But the Nissan offices down in Torrance had some massive COBOL dinosaurs.)

I don't know what COBOL is like at the IRS but I imagine it's idiosyncratic. If the bombs fall, they may be able to send people bills, but unless they are also ensuring that banks can survive the apocalypse, I don't know how they plan to collect taxes or where they're going to put the money.