Posted on 03/11/2006 10:20:29 AM PST by K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
The Federal plantation Massa is addicted to our money and will do anything to rob more and more from us.
Meanwhile the cowardly SHEEPLE lack the courage for a tax revolt, all the while plunging themselves deeper and deeper into debt for SUVs, bigger houses and plasma TV sets.
Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and ALL the founding fathers are rolling in their graves and weeping over the loss of the Constitutional Republic and...the inevitable Civil War II that will tear this country apart.
This piece of openended crap is what started the foul mess:
AMENDMENT XVI
Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913.
Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Woodrow Willson presided over this
Good way of saying that income taxes and the IRS are all about the government controlling the people. Nothing more, nothing less.
if you're going to have the income tax which is BS to start with, you gotta have the referee.
I like Herman.
But reading this "It’s not enough that many of us have to write checks to the IRS this time of year. Congress wants to write the IRS a bigger check to chase down our unavoidable errors."
I wonder what percent of tax underpayments turn out to be unavoidable errors... I would bet it's less than one fourth.
This wouldn't happen if the tax laws weren't so confusing and confiscatory. If there was a strict, low flat income tax, compliance would be at or near 100%.
no i'm saying that if their was no "cop" everyone would speed. I agree taxes laws need to be less confusing and agree with everything else you said.
A new IRS report on tax cheating, the first in fifteen years, looks at which groups cheat the most on taxes and how much revenue is lost because of it:
Tax Cheating Has Gone Up, Two Federal Studies Find, by David Cay Johnston, NY Times: Historically, when income tax rates fall, so does tax cheating. But that is not what happened after President Bush started cutting taxes five years ago. A new report by the Commerce Department found ... a 37 percent increase in unreported income from 2000. In a separate report, the Internal Revenue Service looked at both unreported income and improper deductions and concluded that Americans shortchanged the government by $345 billion in 2001 — an amount almost equal to the projected federal budget deficit for 2007. ...
The I.R.S. report concluded that proprietors of small businesses, investors and farmers cheated the most. Workers who had 99 percent of their wages reported to the government and taxes withheld from their paychecks were the least likely to cheat. Mr. Everson acknowledged that the estimate is probably low ... The biggest single revenue loss came from proprietors of unincorporated businesses ... who shorted the government an estimated $68 billion in 2001. Cheating by partnerships, most of whose members are wealthy professionals or investors, was put at $22 billion, while cheating by landlords and those collecting royalties was estimated at $13 billion. In percentage terms, farmers cheated the most ... failing to pay the government $6 billion, or 72 percent of the taxes they should have.
Econonists View: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/02/who_cheats_the_.html
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NY Times Feb 15 2006
Tax Cheating Has Gone Up, Two Federal Studies Find
The biggest single revenue loss came from proprietors of unincorporated businesses, who typically file a Schedule C with their tax return, who shorted the government an estimated $68 billion in 2001. Cheating by partnerships, most of whose members are wealthy professionals or investors, was put at $22 billion, while cheating by landlords and those collecting royalties was estimated at $13 billion.
In percentage terms, farmers cheated the most, the I.R.S. said, failing to pay the government $6 billion, or 72 percent of the taxes they should have.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/business/15tax.html?ex=1142226000&en=cb6c4327360299dc&ei=5070
the IRS would have to spend $100 billion in an attempt to recover $400 billion.
And I like the word "recover" as if it was theirs to begin with.
The idiot who presided over this fiasco was William Howard Taft.
The IRS puts this same stuff out every year. It has resulted in it getting draconian powers so that everyone is afraid of it.
We need an amendment to the constitution that states that any law, regulation or executive order that cannot be understood by the average high school graduate is null and void. Or we could lower the bar even further by using the average recent college graduate.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Bravo, I am uncertain to just what degree you were being sarcastic but I fear that this strikes far too close to the truth to be considered anything other than straight talk.
How do you figure? Wilson wasn't inaugurated until March 4, 1913. We actually have Republicans to blame, for the most part.
I'm tired of these IRS gestapo reports of people "cheating."
Most people do their best to comply with an incomprehensible tax code, especially small businesses. Then when some low IQ bureaucrat determines the small business owes more taxes, he's called a "cheat." Bull pucky.
You can't comply with the incomprehensible. These low-life IRS bureaucrats interpret the code to give themselves standing with their idiot supervisors - the more you squeeze a taxpayer, the more status these fascist bureaucrats earn.
I don't know what possessed this country to pass the 16th, but the socialists who did should be cursed for eternity and the bodies dug up from the grave and hanged.
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