It was one of the more fair and reliable parts of the US government, so long as you knew how to work with the system.

That “so long as you knew how to work with the system”, intuit, the bloch brothers, and mister klynveldpeatmarwickgoerdeler (he’s south African Dutch but not Afrikaans? I really don’t understand accounting) have lobbied very hard, fast, and wet to keep difficult and out of reach for non practitioners