Was the dog hungry or cold?
Was Sgt Preston short on toilet paper?
At this point, what does... ahh, nevermind.
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Posted on 06/20/2014 4:27:32 PM PDT by kristinn
WASHINGTON -- Taxpayers who do not produce documents for the Internal Revenue Service will be able to offer a variety of dubious excuses under legislation introduced by Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX 36) a week after the IRS offered an incredibly dubious excuse for its failure to turn documents over to House investigators.
“The United States was founded on the belief government is subservient and accountable to the people. Taxpayers shouldn’t be expected to follow laws the Obama administration refuses to follow themselves,” said Stockman. “Taxpayers should be allowed to offer the same flimsy, obviously made-up excuses the Obama administration uses.”
Under Stockman’s bill, “The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act,” taxpayers who do not provide documents requested by the IRS can claim one of the following reasons:
1. The dog ate my tax receipts
2. Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction
3. Traded documents for five terrorists
4. Burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon
5. Left on table in Hillary’s Book Room
6. Received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy’s car
7. Forgot in gun case sold to Mexican drug lords 8. Forced to recycle by municipal Green Czar
9. Was short on toilet paper while camping
10. At this point, what difference does it make?
Stockman’s bill comes a week after the IRS refused to turn over to House investigators emails from former Exempt Organizations Divison director Lois Lerner that would implicate agency personnel in illegal targeting of citizens critical of President Barack Obama.
The IRS claimed a “computer glitch” has erased the hard drives of all incriminating evidence. The IRS further claimed the hard drives are not available for forensic investigation as they had just been destroyed for recycling.
The full text of the resolution follows:
The resolution may be cited as the “Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Resolution.”
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) must allow taxpayers the same lame excuses for missing documentation that the IRS itself is currently proffering
Whereas, the IRS claims that convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction is sufficient justification not to produce specific, critical documentation; and,
Whereas, fairness and Due Process demand that the American taxpayer be granted no less latitude than we afford the bureaucrats employed presently at the IRS;
Now, therefore, be it resolved that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that unless and until the Internal Revenue Service produces all documentation demanded by subpoena or otherwise by the House of Representatives, or produces an excuse that passes the red face test,
All taxpayers shall be given the benefit of the doubt when not producing critical documentation, so long as the taxpayer’s excuse therefore falls into one of the following categories:
1. The dog ate my tax receipts
2. Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction
3. Traded documents for five terrorists
4. Burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon
5. Left on table in Hillary’s Book Room
6. Received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy’s car
7. Forgot in gun case sold to Mexican drug lords
8. Forced to recycle by municipal Green Czar
9. Was short on toilet paper while camping
10. At this point, what difference does it make?
In any case, IRS can see the NSA for a good, high quality copy.
I like it
YES!!!! Time to DEFUND the federal gov. through massive tax avoidance. 98% of stuff the feds do is unconstitutional, so why should I fund it! You wanna persecute me, you can do it without MY money!
Cute, but how about defund the IRS’ ability to audit?
That list is FR worthy! Well done, Rep. Stockman.
The left cannot deal with mockery. The jabs in there are good ones.
A Google (and “Green”) self-guided, battery-powered, hybrid motorboat that the IRS Boat Shop sold me, took all my income to the bottom of the sea.
John are you ghostwriting for Stockman?
Seriously, the FBI needs to raid the IRS, confiscate all their records and build a Rico case against the lot of those racketeering Obamunist syncophants.
+1
Clever and cute, but we need real reform. These agencies are all abusive and they all need to be reigned in. Even these ludicrous hearings don’t accomplish anything if they don’t result in reformation or repeal of the laws that govern their behavior.
The right needs to get mockery like this published.
Powerful stuff.
Time to abolish IRS and move to state supervised consumption tax.
Was the dog hungry or cold?
Was Sgt Preston short on toilet paper?
At this point, what does... ahh, nevermind.
.
Ridicule is the best weapon. Fire away Stockman.
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