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- Here's one for for the Secret Service Gentlemen to mull over. The U.S. Government has crafted a Tax Code that actually rewards and protects licensed prostitution; while at the same time gives it voice and a vote. Such latitude, frees up monies that don't have to be accounted for, only to end up supporting the drug Cartels and other black market activities.
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- What are overpaid fat-cat bureaucrats costing us. Junkets by GSA, secret service prostitution, Congressiional insider trading?
Worst of all, how is it that the pigs at the public trough keep doing studies to justify raising their pay to the same level as people who actually work for a living. I worked in government for six years. I have seen the waste and incompetence personally. It is any wonder that citizens do not want to flush their hard earned cash down this toilet by paying taxes? - Reply to this comment
- We don't need more IRS agents we need fewer. Simplify the tax code. Almost 50% of the US population do not pay any federal income tax (USA Today). Cut federal spending, implement a simple tax plan where everyone pays something (e.g., a consumption tax instead of an income tax the rich buy more stuff therefore paying more in total).
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- tax cheats? What about what the government steals from US???
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- All of this so called "cheating" could be eliminated with a flat VAT on goods and services, and an annual tax system like that of England. However, that would put the swindling tax prep services out of business, and disable the government from charging fines and penalties that we don't get to charge them. It is all connected and a bit too late to abolish the IRS. Its all about swindling and big business. America is a con game.
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- From what I have heard many people are saying that Federal Income Tax is unconstitutional and that only states have the legal authority to tax income.
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- "in the past couple decades, the tax system has become a lot more complex, [so] there are more opportunities to cheat now than there used to be." - This, of course, is not by accident. These laws are generally written by lobbyists for the 1% and industry, so by making the tax code complicated, corporations and the rich, who can afford to spend money on teams of tax attorneys and accountants, will pay no tax or pay less than zero tax (and actually get paid by the government to be in business), while everyone else has to play by the rules.
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- Romney is a tax dodger with offshore accounts to hide his assets.
The reason he is delaying his tax filing is because he has a variety of corruption problems - and plenty that he wants to hide from the America people. - Reply to this comment
- I diagree with most of this report. We don't need more IRS agents, we need a new tax code. The current tax code being over 5000 pages should be enough evidence that something is wrong. A flat tax with no deductions would do it. No way around it. It is the same for individuals, corporations - everyone with few exceptions. The reason we have this mess is that we, the voters, allow our represntatives to have it this way. If enough of us stand up, it will change. Or put someone else in office in your district or state that will do it.
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- Screw needing more agents, simplify the tax code so they don't NEED more agents.
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