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As IRS workers suffer during shutdown, your tax returns could be delayed
fresno bee ^ | Jan 8, 2019 | By Eric Paul Zamora

Posted on 01/10/2019 5:59:13 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Thousands of federal workers in the Fresno area could receive eviction notices and struggle to feed their families in the near-future as they miss their first paycheck this week due to the partial government shutdown, and their work stoppage could soon impact millions of non-government workers as tax season approaches.

About 125 employees gathered outside the Internal Revenue Service’s processing center in southeast Fresno on Thursday. Some held signs depicting crossed-out chess pawns or reading “We want to work. We want to get paid. End the shutdown.”

B. Rodriguez stood near the front of the group holding a bright pink sign which noted that 800,000 American citizens are facing economic hardships due to the shutdown, which began on Dec. 22.

(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buildthefence; daca; dreamact; dreamers; incometaxes; irs; shutown; suffering; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja; workers
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To: DoughtyOne

It is really that simple.


21 posted on 01/10/2019 6:16:03 PM PST by Boardwalk
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To: Boardwalk

All might have to have skin in this game...I’m willing!


22 posted on 01/10/2019 6:17:50 PM PST by caww
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To: Jim Robinson

Wish I was there to hand out the Phone Numbers of Pelosi and Schumer.


23 posted on 01/10/2019 6:19:39 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep)
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To: Jim Robinson; All

I thought we file “tax returns” with the hopes that we get a “tax refund.” I’m confused.


24 posted on 01/10/2019 6:19:52 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I bet the check I send them this year won’t be delayed one second.


25 posted on 01/10/2019 6:20:46 PM PST by eastexsteve
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To: Jim Robinson

Winning! I say evict them and then give them a copy of the parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper.

JoMa


26 posted on 01/10/2019 6:21:09 PM PST by joma89
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To: Boardwalk

I agree, but the Leftists have wedged these people so successfully, that I doubt more than a few could even grasp what I’m talking about.


27 posted on 01/10/2019 6:22:08 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: untenured

It’s the Earned Income Tax Credit “refunds” they are alluding to.

Free Taxpayer money for people who don’t pay Income Taxes, People who work under the table and Illegal Invaders raising their Anchor Babies.


28 posted on 01/10/2019 6:22:13 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep)
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To: max americana

Yes, they mean refunds.
I have to write a check, bet it is cashed pronto.


29 posted on 01/10/2019 6:22:42 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jim Robinson

But, so will their audits.

Most people try to structure their taxes to owe a little bit at tax time.


30 posted on 01/10/2019 6:32:39 PM PST by grumpygresh (is this the Rubicon year? (I'm not talking about the wine))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
About 125 employees gathered... Some held signs depicting crossed-out chess pawns or reading “We want to work. We want to get paid. End the shutdown.” B. Rodriguez stood near the front of the group...
Gee, that's heartbreaking. No time left to plant their jackboots on the necks of Americans who actually work for a living, what a shame. Thanks JimRob.

31 posted on 01/10/2019 6:48:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Jim Robinson

Reading these kinds of stories makes me all warm inside.


32 posted on 01/10/2019 7:05:21 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Schadenfreude, Jim?

I have a lot of that right now!


33 posted on 01/10/2019 7:30:57 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Let's see. How many Conservatives are stupid enough to believe that an IRS refund is some kind of annual "free money" from a beneficent federal government?

Even to the point of claiming no dependents on your W-4 to increase the refund?

34 posted on 01/10/2019 7:39:33 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Yeah...well tell that to Chuck and Nancy


35 posted on 01/10/2019 8:54:57 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Sweet Saint Skittles bounced dat ole white Craka head off da sidewalk causin he was real skeered.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Call me a Luddite but as one of the last of the Mohicans a.k.a. paper filers I just want to be able to get my d@mn tax forms and instructions without burning my own printer ink.


36 posted on 01/10/2019 8:58:15 PM PST by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: Cobra64

We file tax returns to keep from
losing our homes, wages, bank accounts,
and freedom.


37 posted on 01/10/2019 9:41:43 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Jim Robinson

Isn’t Fresno about 99% Mexican? All adobe and red tile - even MacDonald’s....


38 posted on 01/11/2019 4:03:04 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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