Morning AB, All
Thank you AB, as always, for doing this thread. Thank you yon ladies and gems for putting up with me. Cause later in the thread I got a story and it really happened.
It involved my daughter saving her neighbor’s life (also MY neighbor as daughter lives across street from me) and hey, I thought I had all the men but this girl has them all, on the road, at the gas station, visitors to various neighbors. She recently took off her wedding ring and the men have noticed.
Which is interesting because I never thought that she might get married again. Not that marriage is near but she’s NOT going back with that awful husband.
Between her and I we got the male population of Sussex county pretty tied up.
Heh.
I want to say I am so angry at the IRS, at this poor soldier stuck in Mexico in what is obviously a mistake, the situation in Iraq and on and on and on.
But no, I am not really mad at these folks. Obama is only doing what he was elected to do, which is to put a price on everything and launder that money through to the peeps, voters and friends.
I am furious at the Republicans and I know, I know...what’s new.
What, John McCain knew nothing about the VA abuses in his own state? He who is the ersatz champion of POW rights and McCain can’t help the soldier in Mexico? Obama’s waiting for an offer of the right amount of money because it’s never about idealogy with him and his, it’s always about how much money we can bring in and how to best re-distribute to the supporting peeps.
I know it’s the same old complaint and yeah, the pubs excoriated the IRS pretty good but they need to do like the Dems, send people out everywhere, remind of the power the IRS has and the joke of them having lost the emails.
I spent a large part of my life dealing with the IRS. I did payroll most of my life and was charged with sending in the money withheld from paychecks. Even back then the IRS was an arrogant bunch of people.
One time I got a notice after filing my quarterly return….a form you calculate all money withheld and all money sent to the IRS and they better agree of Lucy got some ‘splaining to do.
This was for a large Baltimore hospital and know that the FICA and fed tax withholdings was in the 50-75K every two weeks payroll. The thing they sent me said I was short over TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!
You have to send in this money within three days of payroll so on the quarterly return you list paydates and money sent in. The twit at the IRS said I didn’t send in one week’s worth of withholdings.
Of course I tore the payroll department, found cancelled checks, didn’t sleep nights, told the management and, natch, called the IRS.
You can’t imagine how this upset me. It would upset anyone for God’s sake. The IRS accusing me of shorting them by over $20,000 and my employer was not happy.
Finally, with payroll docs verifying the amount to be sent, and with cancelled check to prove I sent the correct amount, I talk to the three year old at the IRS who sent me this notice.
I remain on the phone as she examines my faxed documents and cancelled check proof.
“Well okay, I guess we made a mistake,” the toddler said.
I screamed.
I screamed into the phone and I screamed some more. All the payroll department came and wrested the phone from my hand.
“So that’s it?” I shout. “You, la-di-da just accuse me of not sending you almost half year of my pay and…’oops, my bad?’...that’s it?”
“Don’t get so upset,” the IRS child told me.
They have no idea. NO IDEA. They don’t bother to re-check themselves because they are God, right here on earth, the mighty IRS and I owe them money for THEIR mistake.
It took forever to get the fines and penalties they assessed us; in fact I had to get the little lesbian Barbara Mikulski to get involved.
The pubs got a great arguiing point with that kid in Mexico and the IRS and lookit, if the Dems had these scandals, we’d all know about it, every day, every minute, every second. The pubs would all be impeached.
Same old, same old.
I had a similar issue with IRS this week. They just send out pre printed letters demanding THEIR money, even though I paid!
On each one is the THREAT of more penalties with the unmentioned threat of further punishment ( the hammer of the STATE!). tHIS irs IS SOOOO OUT OF CONTROL..when THEY are inept, IT DOESN’T MATTER.
The problem as I see it is that the majority of Americans PAY NO FED TAXES AND GET A CHECK FROM THE IRS.Why should they care, everything is just peachy for them.
We are now finding out that the IRS not only can abuse taxpayers to no end (taxpayers have less rights than common criminals!), but in very recent years has been used as a political weapon. Now you know my tagline.