Posted on 07/12/2006 2:46:58 PM PDT by America_Right
Does anyone know how much IRS bean-counters get paid? If so, I would love to know so I can figure out how much money they wasted going over my 1040 long form (I own a business) to figure out that I owe them $14.85. I don't mind sending them the money, but wow was I ever angry once I got to thinking that they must have spent a few hours going over all my tax stuff. Anyway, I have a feeling that this kind of thing is going on all the time, and if IRS employees make the same kind of ridiculously huge salaries as the rest of the federal employees, that was a LOT of money, time, and effort spent on getting another fifteen bucks out of me.
I just wanted to rant about this, and FR seemed like a good place to do it.
Thanks for listening!
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Good Stuff!!
I'll never forget when Christopher Hitchens was on Dennis Miller's HBO show a few years back. Hitchense stated emphatically that Clinted raped Juanita Broderick. Dennis Miller replied "Let me know what it feels like to be gang audited by the IRS".
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I feel your pain!! You wouldn't believe what kind of nonsense I get everytime I try to file form 941.
It's the sword of Damaclese hanging ominously over your head.
They got me two years ago. Ten grand worth.
That's kind of like getting a deadly disease named after you.
That was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks!
You're more than welcome - and hardly the only example of that sort of IRS waste of taxpayer's $$$. It angers me too, and I'll be damned if I'll take it any more.
I'm really making a pest of myself with all 3 of "my" congressmen (2 of which are Dems) - and plan to keep right on until we have the FairTax..
You know, as much as I hate the IRS, I’m not sure FairTax is the way to go.
I looked at the link to the website(albeit briefly), and the first thing that came to mind was, “Ok, that sounds good, but then, what keeps all the companies from just buying their merchandise overseas, building it overseas, and shipping it here?”
By doing it this way, would they be able to avoid paying US taxes? And if they could, they would encourage companies based out of the US to ship even more jobs overseas, causing an economic tailspin. Sure, you’d be able to have retirement and education savings untaxxed, but would you have those savings without a job?
The alternative is to include regulations to keep companies from doing that, but then you’re stepping on fair trade, and we may as well just adopt the entire socialist agenda.
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