Isn’t it the legislative branch that writes the tax code, Mr. Hands? You know, the Congress, whose members are often wealthy? I suggest that that has a lot to do with why the tax codes are messy (due to loopholes) and why the codes favor the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
“Read this report from the Congressional Budget Office and then tell me just how our tax code benefits the rich.”Is that why Congress reduced the budget for IRS fraud investigators despite the fact the government gains an average of $6 in tax revenue for every $1 spent on tax fraud investigation?
Simple fact 90%+ of “tax codes” are exemptions, not taxes, written into the codes as legislation written by Congress, usually as riders/earmarks attached to “must pass” legislation. Reading that legislation is often pretty hilarious. A case in point back in the Reagan ear was a bill to exempt a guy who owned a dry cleaning establishment, and the bill could ONLY possibly apply to that one person! He had a Republican friend in Congress.
I’m guessing martens… did not catch your last comment. Sometimes these ‘toons give way to the next one very quickly. I often, like you probably do, go back to ones where I made a comment to see if and what kind of reply I may have got, but it’s easy to miss. In fact, I’ll bet you won’t see this one, because it’s 2-3 ’toons back now!
piobaire over 9 years ago
Isn’t it the legislative branch that writes the tax code, Mr. Hands? You know, the Congress, whose members are often wealthy? I suggest that that has a lot to do with why the tax codes are messy (due to loopholes) and why the codes favor the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
moosemin over 9 years ago
Yeah, but there is a bigger mess to clean up!
Jason Allen over 9 years ago
“Read this report from the Congressional Budget Office and then tell me just how our tax code benefits the rich.”Is that why Congress reduced the budget for IRS fraud investigators despite the fact the government gains an average of $6 in tax revenue for every $1 spent on tax fraud investigation?
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
Simple fact 90%+ of “tax codes” are exemptions, not taxes, written into the codes as legislation written by Congress, usually as riders/earmarks attached to “must pass” legislation. Reading that legislation is often pretty hilarious. A case in point back in the Reagan ear was a bill to exempt a guy who owned a dry cleaning establishment, and the bill could ONLY possibly apply to that one person! He had a Republican friend in Congress.
griffthegreat over 9 years ago
Only the House of Rep.’s can change it!
moosemin over 9 years ago
I’m guessing martens… did not catch your last comment. Sometimes these ‘toons give way to the next one very quickly. I often, like you probably do, go back to ones where I made a comment to see if and what kind of reply I may have got, but it’s easy to miss. In fact, I’ll bet you won’t see this one, because it’s 2-3 ’toons back now!