I am convinced that the government is incompetent. Yes, I know, some parts of the government work well, and the US is pretty well governed as a whole, when compared with the rest of the world (except for Switzerland and Singapore).

But it is little nitwit things like this that drive me up a wall.

Los Angeles is the country’s second largest city, and Los Angeles County is the most populous county in the entire USA, with a population that tops 10 million.

All property owners must pay tax twice a year, on Dec 10 and on Apr 10. So what do most taxpayers do on April 8 and April 9? They go to the website to figure out how much tax they have to pay.

And what happens to the website? That’s right, it goes down.

Stuff like this makes my usual bogeymen the FTC,the SEC and the FAA look competent.