Before I begin, let me send you over to our Libertarian talk show host Neal Boortz:
http://www.boortz.com
Go to his program notes for April 15. He has some interesting things to say about taxes and has some interesting quotes and statistics.
Now, when you look at who pays what e.g. the top 1% of taxpayers earn 19% of the income and pay 1/3 of the taxes it's easy to see why tax cuts are, in the words of Dickie Gephardt, Tommy Daschle, Hillary Clinton and all the other leftests 'tax cuts for the rich', because, THEY ARE THE ONES WHO PAY THE TAXES!!!!! Do I make myself clear here? As Neal points out, the goal of the left is to shift the tax burden entirely to the upper 49% of the people in this country. We're almost there. We will then have full blown socialism, including Hillary Care.
That brings a joke to mind. Osama bin Laden found a magic lamp and rubbed it and a genie appeared and told him he would grant him one wish. Osama said, 'Oh Genie, I would like to wake up in a bed with three white women'. Sure enough, the next morning, he woke up in a bed with Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt, and Hillary Clinton. His knees were broken, his penis had been cut off and he had to wait three months for a doctor.
Back to taxes. I really think the tax code is a mess. Politicians are always saying we need to fix it or simplify it. Remember Ronald Reagan? He tried. He failed. When even a simple tax situation requires someone to go to a professional tax person, the tax code definitely needs to be fixed. Let's scrap it and start all over. Yeah, like that's gonna happen. It will only take a grass roots effort and throwing enough politicians out of office to make that happen.
And let's hear it for the IRS. They have refunded $30,000,000.00 in slave reparations claims. That's THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS. And we're putting the government in charge of airport security? We're doomed!
True story about the IRS. In the 1980's I was living in St. Louis and invested in a perfectly legal, but questionable tax shelter. One of the partners got audited and the IRS gave him a set of figures that they would approve. So, I dutifully filed an amended return using the IRS figures. I got audited. When I pointed out to the auditor that the numbers I was using were the IRS' own numbers he told me that those numbers came from the downtown offfice and this was the Clayton office. Huh??? Aren't you the same agency? The rules change from office to office?
Hey Leroy..come and wand this old lady in the wheelchair. That's OK, sir you don't have to take off your turban. Go right on through.
Back to the IRS. I appealed, which meant that I went to this guy's supervisor. I knew there was no chance I would win, I just wanted to get my money's worth. I used the same argument about the St. Louis office numbers and the supervisor essentially told me to take 'em to court. The amount of money involved? $240 with a $30 fine. I told them both that with computer time, the auditor's time, and his supervisor's time it probably cost over $5000.00 to collect that $270 and as a taxpayer, I was appalled.
The IRS is the only government agency where you are guilty until proven innocent.
One of the other partners did take the IRS to court. They kept getting continuances and, since he had to take off work every time he went to court, he just gave up.
Yes Abdullah, you're fine...you don't have to remove your shoes. Mustn't profile you know.
But you must admit, we do have the best politicans that money can buy and are they ever entertaining.
Some examples:
Cynthia McKinney...what more can I say?
Sheila Jackson Lee...She was touring NASA in Houston during the Mars rover project and she asked if the rover was anywhere near the flag the astronauts planted..
Major Owens...He gave a speech in the House that over 20 million slaves died during the passage from Africa to America and and were thrown overboard. Sharks are still patrolling the slave route waiting for
more human flesh. Rush Limbaugh had his staff run the numbers and it was around 4000 people a day being thrown overboard. The next day Major changed it to 2 million, which still works out to over 400 a day.
Maxine Waters...The CIA started the crack epidemic in LA.
Henry Waxman...Please do something about those nose hairs!!
And we must not forget
Robert C. Byrd...If he lives as long as Strom Thurmond, the whole State of West Virginia will be named after him. In fact, I'll bet they're getting ready to change the name to Byrdland after he dies.
Some additional quotes:
'I'm proud to be paying taxes to the United States. The only thing is...I could be just as proud for half the the money.' Arthur Godfrey
'Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society' Oliver Wendell Holmes
A civilized society??? Driving on the Atlanta freeways? Listening to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?
I want my money back!!
Posted by denny at April 15, 2002 08:35 PM