Posted on 07/09/2018 2:07:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
BTW when my aged parents in another country were dying, I dint get to go back and say Goodbye either...
and I paid all the taxes I owed...unlike your scenario tax dodging losers I just didn’t make enough to pay for plane tickets ...
“This is actually a good news story, but only if you’re a law-abiding, taxpaying American citizen.”
Huh. I don’t owe taxes, but I don’t rejoice when fellow citizens are being raped by another tyrannical bureaucracy.
Let’s turn the tables and dump the IRS and deport the IRS agents to VZ or Cuba.
DING DING DING DING!!!!!
You get the DING DING DING award as well.
Sorry to have to be impolite here and have to ‘shout’, but, for anyone who still just don’t get it:
ITS NOT ABOUT TAXES. AND ITS NOT ABOUT PASSPORTS.
ITS ABOUT YOUR GOVERNMENT GETTING MORE AND MORE POWER OVER WHAT USED TO BE CALLED “CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS” SO THAT YOU WIND UP HAVING TO GET SOME BUREAUCRAT’S PERMISSION TO EXERCISE THEM.
That is how your rights are LOST.
Maroon #1: “Hey, why do I care if some tax deadbeat gets his passport pulled?”
Because, ‘Dale’, its not about that. Its just another brick. On top of a brick. On top of a brick. If you don’t see that, you’re becoming complicit in the building of the “Totalitarian Pyramid”.
Enforce existing ‘SUBJECT MATTER’ laws. PERIOD.
But don’t make Constitutional rights and basic human rights contingent on some bureaucrat’s approval.
If you want to continue living in a free country, that is.
This isn’t the first time this s@#! has been pulled by Congress. In 1986 Congress made it mandatory for the State Dep’t to pull the passport of anyone more than $5000 in arrears on child support.
Now let me ask y’all: Do you think that ex-spouses never lie? Do you think the ‘Family Courts’ have the best interest of the family in mind? Do you think the ‘Family Law’ enforcement bureaucracy never makes mistakes? Do you think it is easy and quick and cost-free to get a bureaucracy to acknowledge and fix an error? Or that ‘the system’ is never abused? If you do think those things, you were probably OK with that one, too.
Unlike 99.9% of the rest of you here on FR, I am a refugee from communism. The REAL kind (you know - a one-party state). You know how the Commies kept the population “in line” for decade after decade?
FEAR. See, in that type of state, EVERYTHING could technically be found to violate some law. And doing ANYTHING in your personal or professional life required some bureaucrat’s blessing. So people kept quiet for way too long.
That’s something that I am HYPER-SENSITIVE to when I see it happening here in the good old USA. These bricks eventually add up to SOMETHING UGLY.
Again: Enforce the laws already on the books. And leave fundamental rights OUT OF IT (you stinkin’ bureaucrats).
I’m off my soapbox. If THAT rant didn’t get through, go listen to Scott Adams because you are beyond my ability to help.
Due process should require that a judgment is obtained before denying a passport. If not, the government is going to get sue for very large sums of money.
The burden to prove taxes are owed was shifted to the IRS many years ago. Lots of people pay taxes that don’t actually owe them.
The government must now get a judgment in a court of law. The burden of proving you don’t owe taxes is no longer on the taxpayer. That’s a huge change from the early 1970s.
George Soros owes over a billion. Can he travel?
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