New requirement for being elected or appointed to ‘represent’ the people, cheat on your income taxes because you are now in the ‘club’ and you don’t have to worry about being responsible or accountable.

In light of this seemingly endless tax evasion debacle, I think congress should demand a tax audit on all government officials. That no doubt will be a good start in puting a dent in the national debt.

Many years ago (before the electorate went brain-dead) there was dinner-table-type-talk that Congress purposely designed the tax code with enough loop holes and obfuscation so that ‘cheating’ (by them too, of course) here and there on tax returns could go undetected.

Carried to what we thought was pure conjecture on our part, we decided that Congress’s (unexpressed but clear) purpose was so when Congressmen did their cheating (not only on taxes, but whenever the opportunity arose) the public, because it could and also did cheat the government would shrug Congress’s behavior off as just business-as-usual.  (Just one big den of thieves?)

Somebody observed that one really has to know the tax code inside and out to pull off an under-the-table tax cheat so the ‘honest mistakes’ or ‘unintentional mistakes’ argued by these pols in their so-called defense are impossible to swallow.

Need to write/talk about who IRS targets:folks at the bottom.  Source: DemocracyNow, guest, David Cay Johnston, longtime tax writer. http://www.democracynow.org Folks at the top have lots of lawyers.  How many haven’t paid taxes, from corporations to many rich?

Why didn’t “W” Bush nominees have this kind of problem? Did any?

Sorry G.A., I made a filing mistake in my 2008 return and the IRS refunded me an additional (approximately) 500 dollars.

So my question is who doesn’t have tax problems? Doesn’t everyone have them?

The tax laws are complicated, even after you file there will be computer programs going through every dot of your return to see if it can increase the government’s take.  These automatic programs will send out letters increasing the amount of taxes you owe, even if you don’t actually owe them. Because they know that people will pay just because they are intimidated by getting the letter. It’ actually a significant amount of what the IRS gets.

Atlanta, Kansas City and Fresno seem in competition for this money. Sometimes people can get many letters all from different offices asking for different things. I

t’s sad when you pay your taxes, thinking you’ve done the right thing, and they turn around and demand more, using some obscure regulation, that only an attorney could understand.

I’ve even gotten demands for copies of my children’s birth certificates after, claiming them as dependent deductions every year since they were born for over a decade.

The state and IRS work together so if one opens a case on you the other will follow suit.

After years of this, you begin to develop a phobia of getting your mail out of the mail box. Which at times can interfere with getting the other mail you should read.

Taxes are a problem for everyone, so it doesn’t surprise me when this happens, its part of the plan to make everyone afraid, to make them feel little small and powerless.

We the people pay way too much in taxes, and everyday they find ways of getting more and more money from us.