sclerotic or just B(usiness)A(s)U(susal)?

my friends at the internasl revenue service in austin texas...

have found it necessary to invest fifty-five cents of taxpayer ( that would, among others, be me ) money in sending me a letter telling me i should have recieved "a second economic impact paymenr (EP2) as provided by the covid related taxrelief act of 2020" in a bilingual ( which i favor by the way ) notice...it also include the helpful tip that the cash isn't considered taxable income for 2020 taxes...since it landed at my institution on 1 january 2021 it wasn't going to be taxable in 2020 anyway but clearly the irs has no knowledge of the exact moment i recieved it and so the bureaucracy churned out a letter for me ( and, one supposes, for every other taxpayer they have information on...which must have cost a mint in postage ) telling me what i , and presumably the accountant who does my taxes ( after screwing them up more than once i retired from form 1040-A ) already know or, had the spirit moved me, found out on my own...it was simply something that had to be done...bureaucracy militates towards rigid behaviors, duplication of effort, and tautological language...no anarchist i have no desire to rid myself of the government...since there are always those who are wiling to take whatever they can from their contemporaries i would like a government in place that at least makes some pretense of keeping that under control despite the criminal class in congress ( one segment of the governmnet that merits the lake of fire )that continually undermines that by making what once was illegal legislatively, if not actualy, ethical...still, at some point this sort of behavior becomes, if not an index of entropy, a wasteful exercise...a misallocation of resources that could have been better spent elsewhere on a more meaningful project...a stupid, sclerotic, almost mindless repetition of the obvious

so EP2 is in the bank...so, for that matter, is EP3...i didn't reflexively run out to macy's and blow the whole lot on ralph lauren polo underwear and tommy hilfiger t-shirts...i am sitting tight...any bureaucracy that is so conformed to automatic behaviors and "by the book" thinking may just, at some future point, decide it was all a horrible mistake and could they please have it back..i want to be able to give it to them.