"We view it as payroll regulation".
Corporate computing was once all about "structured data" such as payroll records or sales figures.
But most Americans do pay federal taxes of some sort, such as payroll taxes, and nearly all pay sales taxes.
"They are also looking at how to maximise existing funding opportunities such as payroll or corporate giving".
Most of the budget consists of things that cannot be cut, at least not quickly, such as payroll, health-care and education spending.
The earnings increase means family budgets started this month on slightly better footing as payroll taxes rose for all workers and the wealthiest Americans faced higher income taxes.
Ms. DiMiceli retired on Friday, along with her best friend, Mimi Simonetti, 83, who has worked at the center for 66 years, mostly as payroll manager and cashier.
The reduced number of workers employed in the public sector would make it easier to meet these targets as payroll tax collections shrink.
Their brief stint as payroll guards ends in violence, and the two men return to their lives of crime with inevitably tragic results.
