For the IRS There's No EZ Fix

CIO.com ^ | Apr. 1, 2004 | ELANA VARON

[The Great RJ]

The quickest way to get reform in the IRS would be to have the day taxes fall due the day before the general election and to outlaw withholding so people would actually have to write a check for their taxes. We would have reform if not rioting in the streets.

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[paul51]

the fix.....eliminate it

[FairOpinion]

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[FairOpinion]

There is a very easy fix: ABOLISH the IRS and replace the current tax system with a retails sales tax.

[Cicero]

Sheesh. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[Feiny]

If that occurred, there would be such a huge outcry. Unfortunately, most people have no idea how much they pay in taxes and consider any refunds to be a "gift" instead of an overcharge.

[Taxman]

Good find, RJ!

And one day after that, we would have a National Retail Sales Tax, the IRS would be abolished and the 16th Amendment would be well on its way to repeal!

[tomball]

Bravo!

[Taxman]

Whoops! You found and posted this great article! Thanks!

[upchuck]

I gots yer solution right here^. It'll save billions and raise billions more. Win-win.

[Viking2002]

I spent two years as an IT contractor for these flying, flaming a-holes during Rossotti's tenure. The system from within is fundamentally broken, as it is with so many other federal bureaucracies. The ones who make the decisions don't have Clue One as to how IT infrastructure should function - they're all bureaucratic hacks. Career recipients of the guvmint workfare program. Glad-handing politicos protecting their own little fiefdoms, while the people with the technical skills carry out the grunt work. I've seen people with absolutely NO - NONE, NADA, ZERO, ZILCH - technical expertise get promoted into the IT hierarchy, making decisions for which they are completely lacking in professional and logistical skills. If the average tax-paying American really, honestly knew what went on in the inner workings of the federal machine, this country would be in flames. It's a frigging crime against humanity.

[GregoryFul]

They are probably trying to do it in Ada.

[isthisnickcool]

For a few million give me 12 months, let me pick the coders and I'll be happy to fix this.....

Or, I'll take the 8 billion and construct something that handles taxation for the whole planet.

Better yet, keep the few million, take the 8 billion and divide it up and give an equal amount to every living American who has served in the military (except John Kerry and John McCain) and close the IRS and due the Fair Tax Plan.

[GregoryFul]

Familiar as I am with Government defense contracts, I seems to me that most involved try to make a career of spending Government money without ever reaching a delivery or an end point.

[ottothedog]

I believe the FAA has done several go rounds of this. I don't know if they ever got the air traffic control system upgraded, but as of like 1999, they still had computers that used vacuum tubes. I believe that Boeing has implemented features in their jets that give pilots much more information than air traffic controllers.

[isthisnickcool]

Yea, about all they are good at is having meetings. Most have long forgot or do not understand who they work for. The concept of public service or working "for the taxpayer" is a foreign concept.

If the IRS was a company it would have gone belly up years ago.

[SteelTrap]

I second the vote - I like your plan!

[ancient_geezer]

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No EZ fix? Sure there is, scrap the IRS and start over:

John Linder in the House & Saxby Chambliss Senate, offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and payroll taxes outright, and provide a IRS free replacement in the form of a pure consumption tax:

H.R.25, S.1493
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

Refer: http://www.fairtax.org & http://www.salestax.org