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Ransom D Stone said, 3 days ago
Petulant Pat. Take two pills and get a life.
Richard S. Russell said, 3 days ago
Every bureaucracy in the world — governments at all levels, churches, unions, the military, corporations, sports leagues, non-profit organizations, large families, communes and collectives, circuses, criminal enterprises, you name it — EVERY bureaucracy contains a few mean-spirited people in petty authority who abuse that authority to lord it over those within their power.
Tue Elung-Jensen said, 3 days ago
Riiight, the people who say they don´t want to pay taxes are the “honest and ordinary” :D.
Adrian Snare said, 3 days ago
This “poli-toon” is exaggerated for point of emphasis.
Russell has hit the head on the nail….But, how do we get rid of these mean/nasties ?
Complaints ?
Tolerance ?
Or, are we the mean-nasties ?….(tax evasion)
Robert Landers said, 3 days ago
@Adrian Snare
I have personally found it FAR easier (and even more kind and compassionate) to deal with the IRS than ANY in the private financial sector!!
Perhaps the seemingly little known fact that those in the governmental service (and that includes the employees of the IRS) are also generally middle class taxpayers themselves might also be pertinent here?
Ms. Ima said, 3 days ago
Typical liberal.
Harleyquinn
said, 3 days ago
This goes higher then some worker peonon. I wonder who made those “surveys”. Of course we have Obama to thank for this attitude among his followers. Obama is nothing more than a community organizers from the house of Saul Alinsky. All he knows how to do is hype and blame. The ONLY way he ever got elected was by painting the other guy a bad bad guy. The only way he knows how to get anything done is to inspire hate of the other guy among his followers. And people are surprised when this happens?
masterskrain said, 3 days ago
But, how many people remember that the head of the I.R.S. when the whole investigation of the TEA “Party” was started was a Bush Appointee??
The guy who just resigned was head of the agency for 6 months, the investigation was going on for 18 months…
SpicyNacho
said, 3 days ago
@Tue Elung-Jensen
Tue Elung-Jensen says: Riiight, the people who say they don´t want to pay taxes are the “honest and ordinary” :D.
You misrepresent the whole argument of “Taxed Enough Already” when you say “they don’t want to pay taxes”. The issue is the Federal Gov’t is bringing in record amounts of tax dollars, but they just can’t prioritize with what they have and cut waste and pork. They just keep asking for more and more.
CHRISTOPHER BOYER said, 3 days ago
We already disliked the uber wealthy and their tendency to do as they like. We were just happy to elect an intelligent, well spoken, President who had actually been poor and had read more then a book; A President who knew what the rest of us are going through because he’d been there and had made his way up without his daddy’s help.
Chillbilly
said, 3 days ago
The toon makes a good point. The IRS can’t afford to go head-to-head with General Electric’s thousands of accountans and attorneys who do nothing but shave tax bills. And even if they could, they’re also facing laws that were bought by their lobbyists.
It’s inevitable that these fake “social welfare” organizations will soon be staffed the same way. If the Koch Bros fund accountants and attorneys for teabagger groups, the IRS will have to counter. But with what?
Genome Project said, 3 days ago
@Harleyquinn
“The only way he knows how to get anything done is to inspire hate of the other guy among his followers”.
You just described FOX News, Rush and the other Right wing talking heads. Even you yourself are guilty of it…it’s called mirroring. Calling out what you see as a fault in others that which is your own biggest fault.
Genome Project said, 3 days ago
@masterskrain
“The head of the I.R.S. when the whole investigation was started was a Bush Appointee
I pointed that out yesterday and the CONs ignored it. It doesn’t fit their “the president is always wrong” narrative.
cwsprague said, 3 days ago
@Tue Elung-Jensen
Are you confusing the 51% who pay no income taxes with those who don’t want to be taxed to death so that 51% will vote for Dems in order to avoid income taxes? And I thought Biden said everybody needed to have skin in the game?
cwsprague said, 3 days ago
@Robert Landers
Liberal middle class taxpayers. Except for Geitner, of course. He’s rich and pays no taxes unless forced to when he’s caught.