But does the weatherman go to jail if the forecast is wrong?

There is a steady stream of people writing "Google's automatic system screwed me and I cannot get it fixed" blog posts. If Google's automated system screws people, just imagine how effective the government's system will be.

Weather patterns are just a matter of applying some relatively simple rules a huge number of times. Taxes, by contrast, require clever parsing of the meaning of words and the intent behind them. Figuring out exactly what counts as "education" for instance.