Higher Math Puzzle Time! I know this is a hard one, but see if you can get it. 1. Rich Guy. 2. His well-paid tax preparer. 3. Congress cuts IRS enforcement budget. What is the result?
The estimate is that for each dollar cut from the IRS budget, SIX dollars will be lost in unpaid taxes. Honest taxpayers who only want to do the right thing, and pay their fair share as the law directs and intends, will be unaffected by these cuts. Except insofar as they will increase the deficit. The only ones who will benefit will be lawbreakers, like political action committees that pretend to be non-profit social service groups to avoid paying taxes … oh, wait, that’s right, these cuts were made BECAUSE the some few IRS officials had the temerity to try to enforce the law on such groups. … Not that there would have been a problem if they had confined such efforts to Democratic and Progressive groups … it was including the others that got them into trouble. (Imagine that? Lawmakers preventing the enforcement of the law against people who work illegally to get those very same lawmakers elected. Who could have seen that coming?) These cuts were specifically intended to reward and protect lawbreaking. Once, Americans were called upon to serve in a militia (and risk their lives in regular service if drafted), to join posses to chase bad guys, required by law to close their businesses and run down the street to fight a fire, required by law provide work on public roads, etc. Now we hire people to do these things for us, and what were personal obligations of time and sweat now become money payments in taxes. Even voting was a legal obligation and those who failed to vote could be punished. All we demand of our citizens now is to serve on a jury once in a blue moon, and obey the laws that, through their representatives, they have agreed upon, including the tax laws. That’s it. It isn’t much. Tax evasion is worse in many ways than, oh, scamming money from an old lady. In the latter case, you cheat, defraud, and betray an individual. In the former you cheat, defraud, and betray your country. If the members of congress believe that the tax code is unreasonable or unfair, they should change it. Leaving it alone, and then giving a pass to those who violate it, especially while pretending to be SO VERY concerned with government debt, takes hypocrisy (not to mention stupidity) to a level rarely seen, even in congress. Then again, these are the same folks who rail against illegal immigration and then object to spending money for the enforcement of immigration laws, and give a pass to those who employ large numbers of “undocumented” workers, who object not so much to illegal immigration as to the treatment of illegal immigrants as human beings. End of early-morning rant.
The estimate is that for each dollar cut from the IRS budget, SIX dollars will be lost in unpaid taxes. Honest taxpayers who only want to do the right thing, and pay their fair share as the law directs and intends, will be unaffected by these cuts. Except insofar as they will increase the deficit. The only ones who will benefit will be lawbreakers, like political action committees that pretend to be non-profit social service groups to avoid paying taxes … oh, wait, that’s right, these cuts were made BECAUSE the some few IRS officials had the temerity to try to enforce the law on such groups. … Not that there would have been a problem if they had confined such efforts to Democratic and Progressive groups … it was including the others that got them into trouble. (Imagine that? Lawmakers preventing the enforcement of the law against people who work illegally to get those very same lawmakers elected. Who could have seen that coming?) These cuts were specifically intended to reward and protect lawbreaking. Once, Americans were called upon to serve in a militia (and risk their lives in regular service if drafted), to join posses to chase bad guys, required by law to close their businesses and run down the street to fight a fire, required by law provide work on public roads, etc. Now we hire people to do these things for us, and what were personal obligations of time and sweat now become money payments in taxes. Even voting was a legal obligation and those who failed to vote could be punished. All we demand of our citizens now is to serve on a jury once in a blue moon, and obey the laws that, through their representatives, they have agreed upon, including the tax laws. That’s it. It isn’t much. Tax evasion is worse in many ways than, oh, scamming money from an old lady. In the latter case, you cheat, defraud, and betray an individual. In the former you cheat, defraud, and betray your country. If the members of congress believe that the tax code is unreasonable or unfair, they should change it. Leaving it alone, and then giving a pass to those who violate it, especially while pretending to be SO VERY concerned with government debt, takes hypocrisy (not to mention stupidity) to a level rarely seen, even in congress. Then again, these are the same folks who rail against illegal immigration and then object to spending money for the enforcement of immigration laws, and give a pass to those who employ large numbers of “undocumented” workers, who object not so much to illegal immigration as to the treatment of illegal immigrants as human beings. End of early-morning rant.