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We paid our State(s) & Federal Taxes for 2007 a few weeks ago using online software.

Easy-peasy even with being landlords now and a mid-year multi-state move and all.

Ended up with a small refund from the Feds, and we selected the electronic direct deposit option.

One week later, boom, there it is.

Compared with last week, when we got the letter from the IRS telling us to expect an economic stiumulus check from them sometime this Summer, whenever they get around to printing and mailing all of the checks out.

Now, since they already have our direct deposit bank routing and account numbers on file from our 2007 refund, wouldn't it have saved the postage of the expectation letter, the printing of a physical check, the stuffing of envelopes, and the mailing of the actual check; if they had simply direct deposited the funds to our account?

We'd have had the funds sooner to go a-stimulating with, and it would have been less costly to taxpayers (i.e. US) to get the funds (maybe they could have given us more to go stimulate the economy with instead).

But organizations above a certain size or with enough tenure protection seem to get inversely less sophisticated with regard to financial cleverness, or of any kind actually.

It's the coupon-clipping, comparison shopping stay-at-home domestic caretakers that we should employ to direct matters of government bureaucracy.  The efficiency gains would, I believe, be astounding.