Posted on 01/14/2023 6:25:51 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If we put that dept into Chapter 7 and sold the assets at cost, we could cut a $1.8 million check for each bureaucrat and call it a day.
They'd never go hungry, and we'd save $105bn/yr forever and not skip a beat.
Most filers receive all their income from sources required to file how much they paid to the filers. The forms are all matched electronically. “Ah, you missed 15 dollars in interest” does not require some gun carrying swat team to descend on the filer. They need 87000 more agents like a moose needs a hat rack.
Representative Apportionment:
Start with the spending of the government from last year minus funds raised by the Fed from leases, fees, etc. Take last years spending and divide into two equal amounts.
One amount is for the Senate and is further divided by 100 to identify the per Senator amount. The remaining amount is divided by 435 to identify the per Representative amount.
Each state’s tax bill is equal to the sum of (number of Senators x the per Senator amount) and (number of Representatives x the per Representative amount). The state’s tax bill is further divided into 12 equal payments to obtain the monthly payment required.
States are free to raise taxes as needed to meet this amount.
When I accidentally underpaid my Maryland state tax on my last Maryland tax return I had to do (I moved to Florida), they eventually found me and told me the remaining amount I owed plus a small penalty. They certainly didn’t need an armed goon to tell me that; just a note in my mail.
Ya....
They go after the lower wage earners because they can’t afford to fight and just pay up.
Taxation is theft. It is as simple as that.
Ah, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, my hometown Communist rag.
“Republicans is fer da rich people, Democraps is fer da workin’ man.”
There is no more steel industry in Pittsburgh. Why, oh why are we still overwhelmingly leftist?
>>Because the IRS doesn’t have the manpower to go after all the big fish, 53% of its audits focus on people making less than $50,000, reports a Syracuse University study.
To fix the problem, the IRS needs more people<<
Right away they belie themselves. If they just use these agents to pursue the rich scofflaws, problem solved. 50% of income earners pay zero or, WORSE, get PAID taxes anyway.
To be fair, the IRS delayed this for a year, presumably to get their enforcement mechanisms in place. Now might be a good time to write your congressmen and tell them that is going too far. This does not target people making >$400k. It targets the middle and lower classes.
I would add:
1. “The Big Fish” have the most to lose in an audit-—especially reputation.
2. The Big Fish hire good internal accounting people & excellent CPA’s to do their myriad of tax returns & other reports. Those PROFESSIONALS have their license at stake & they search the IRS tax laws for the most advantageous usage for each client. Tax laws are NOT Oreo cookies-—not all rules work for everyone.
Lower earners rely on Turbo Tax or people in the mall to do their ‘taxes’. EVEN the IRS offers free tax preparation-—are THEY making errors???
What are the chances that they haven’t even printed enough 1099 forms for such reporting?????
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
Regarding Biden's constitutionally indefensible IRS Army run by non-popularly-elected bureaucrats, all that so-called "MAGA" Republicans need to point out is that the Constitution authorizes only Congress, not Executive or Judicial Branches, to arm an army.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming [emphases added], and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"
What MAGA Republicans really need to do to help "street-fighter" Trump finish draining the swamp is the following.
The MAGA-controlled House desparately needs to introduce a resolution for Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution to the states that is strictly limited to repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th Amendments (popular voting for federal senators) (16&17A), little or ideally no discussion required for such an amendment imo.
Repealing 16&17A would effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government.
Although such a resolution is doomed with gridlocked Congress (where are the states?), what patriots initially get out of a repeal 16&17A resolution is seeing more masks fall off remaining RINO lawmakers who vote against resolution that patriots can primary in 2024.
Another thing that MAGA Republicans can do to help Trump drain swamp is to make a law to require the Congressional Budget Office to publicly complain within 24 hours when an appropriations bill contains spending that cannot be reasonably justified under Congress's Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Finally, Trump 47 and Congress need to establish an "Oath Court" based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment (14A) that will have original jurisdiction in hearing allegations of abuse of government power by federal or state actors, especially alleged violations of Section 2 of 14A. (Maybe that's why Sections 2 & 3 are consecutively numbered?)
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Apportionment of Representatives]"
"Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof [emphases added]. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Regarding Section 2 of 14A, consider that the post-Civil War congressional Republicans who drafted Section 2 made it to discourage southern Democrats (my word) from rigging the ballot boxes that Democrats are now alleged to have done for 2020, and now 2022 elections!
"Because slavery (except as punishment for crime) had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, the freed slaves would henceforth be given full weight for purposes of apportionment. This situation was a concern to the Republican leadership of Congress, who worried that it would increase the political power of the former slave states, even as such states continued to deny freed slaves the right to vote." —Apportionment of Representatives
Before 1915, the US had roads, seaports, a strong military, universities, libraries, schools, hospitals, railroads and a strong commercial sector.
It didn’t have an income tax.
Get rid of the $600 income from sales gimmick...In addition to adding the additional income to your regular earnings, the money you earn outside of your regular job is subject to 15+% self-employment tax (AKA Social Security).
I'm not a tax pro. I'm self-employed small business. I do my own taxes.
No, it is neither.
Andrew Carnegie casts a long shadow.
“The Editorial Board”
Is that one of those AI thingies I’ve reading about?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4123306/posts
or
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4123282/posts
The editorial ADMITS by inference that the income tax violates the Fourteenth Amendment! The rest of the Constitution was not neutered by adoption of the 16th Amendment.
If there is no equal protection under any law, then that law must be stricken. Period.
a dream come true
A lot of them are low income and therefore recipients of the Earned Income Credit. There is a lot of fraud in those returns and the IRS sics their agents on these folks to get some fairly easy money.
The IRS goes after the most money the easiest way possible as their goal is to maximize revenue intake to the treasury. If it is going to be difficult to chase a case due to complexity or the amount in dispute is small they will often pass on the case or earmark it for later enforcement.
Note: this does not apply when they are going after a taxpayer for political purposes.
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