01-23-2017, 12:19 AM
(01-21-2017, 10:03 AM)David Horn Wrote:I don't see the federal government and federal taxes disappearing anytime soon. As long as the federal government exists and federal taxes are needed to fund it, a federal department associated with tax collection will also exist.(01-20-2017, 04:54 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-20-2017, 04:05 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Tea Party is a motley crew of old Boomers and Silents who make plenty of money but still don't want to pay any taxes. They have turned the Republican Party into the most cruel and ruthless creeps this nation has seen since the days of Dixie and Jim Crow. They are the total opposite of a workers' movement.
Yes, America needs a real labor movement! And it would run Andrew Pudzer and his like out of town on a rail, and would not be fooled by a Lumpy Chump Grump who promises to make America great and then appoints mugwumps like Pudzer.
I suspect that they've paid/been paying their taxes like everyone else is supposed to be doing.
One of the prime goals of the GOP since Reagan, at least, is the death of the IRS. They've almost killed the part they hate most, the audit division. I assume it will now die completely. FWIW, the only people able to hide their incomes from the tax man are people who receive their income from sources that don't report (or can easily lie), or have access to lawyers who can muddy the water. Not folks like us, that's for sure.
Tax evasion is now estimated at roughly $300 Billion a year.