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!
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?
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...
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.
“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.
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.
George Soros owes over a billion. Can he travel?