Posted on 07/09/2018 2:07:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Whooooooooo-Boy!!! Puts a crimp in Democrat’s travel plans.
It has to be pretty bad before that happens. You won’t get denied for a few hundred bucks tax arrears.
So if you are an American who doesn’t pay taxes, you can’t get a passport, but if you are an illegal alien you don’t pay taxes and get citizenship.
What a great country!
Wanna bet Al Sharpton still gets his passport...
But the IRS won’t release tax records to ICE to catch illegal aliens working unlawfully in the USA.
Does Al Sharpton head the list?
It’s the IRS this only applies to conservatives.
Most people do not just have $50K sitting around. That Makes me wonder why $51K? What is the significance?
Is there somebody in particular that is just under/over $50K in arrears?
Hillary!!!!
Brick by brick by brick by brick - is how the Great Pyramid was built.
The same with a Totalitarian State. Eventually all of the UNRELATED bricks add up to something. Something BAD.
(That’s the key here - the legal obligation to pay taxes is unrelated to your right to freedom to travel).
Then you have denials of basic rights - and needing to get bureaucratic permission to exercise basic Constitutional rights - next step - Totalitarianism.
Bad, bad idea.
Does anyone ever actually ask Al Sharpton to see his passport, or would that be racist?
What is not forbidden is permitted - versus - what is not permitted is is forbidden.
Like our Founders, I choose the former.
BINGO.
Why is the IRS allowing $50,000 overdue back taxes ???
Most Americans don’t even make $50,000 gross a year in income...
did the Congressional Democrats write this law for themselves ???
Here’s a thought...
When I was in the military and was sent overseas I didn’t need a passport to travel to fro on orders...we used our military ID card...only dependents needed passports (the military used regular commercial planes TWA out of Travis AFB, CA, and we wore our uniforms)
Does congress get to travel without passports too ???
bet lots of them owe back taxes...
The IRS doesn’t “allow” anything. They collect taxes. Fraud CAN result in criminal charges, but we don’t put people in prison for making bad decisions in terms of what bills to pay off first.
This simply adds the effective denial of a basic human right - the freedom to travel - as an additional penalty on top of their other woes.
Lets say you got into this mess because you had a famnily medical crisis, or some other emergency. The $$ went to that, you had every intent to pay taxes later, but then the economy took a dip, your business cratered.
Now you have tax liens, etc. (I don’t know if this applies if one gets a repayment plan and stays current - the law & the IRS is actually very good in allowing people to do that).
Back to the “what if” plot line - now you get word that one of your aged parents in another country is on his/her last legs - and your own government prevents you from going to say your farewells because you didn’t pay your taxes.
Seems like quite an unjust “punishment”, doesn’t it? Denial of a basic fundamental right for something that there already are OTHER laws (tax laws) that give the government redress.
Tomake it binding, with teeth, existing pass ports should be pulled.
Oh, pull them any way and make the holder pay up of go to court.
I used to work for the Passport Agency in the early 70s and we couldn’t process passports if the person was delinquent in paying their taxes. I didn’t know that that policy had changed.
I guess Al Sharpton can’t leave
If your aged parents are still back in that other country, you should be deported for breaking the law in ours...
If you owe our gov more in taxes than a regular American citizen makes gross in a year, you need to go to prison...
Didya really think I was gonna cry for you Argentina err Skippy ???
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