Posted on 03/08/2011 11:24:30 AM PST by xtinct
If you’re collecting a federal paycheck, you should pay federal taxes. That’s the premise of a bill I introduced last week to require federal employees to pay their taxes or be fired.
The IRS reports that 100,000 federal civilian employees are seriously delinquent on their federal taxes. These aren’t just people who fell behind. These are people who have actively defied IRS letters and phone calls seeking payment. In 2009, the US government failed to collect $1 billion a year from federal employees alone.
While the number of delinquent federal employees has remained fairly constant since 2004, the amount owed has increased nearly 70%. The bill further prohibits the hiring of future employees who have failed to pay taxes. We’ve got to tackle this problem.
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Can you say lien on everything they own?
I find this difficult to comprehend. About 20 years ago I fell athwart of the IRS and a few months later the IRS seized everything in my bank accounts. Don’t see why the IRS can’t do the same for federal employees.
Call for Timmy Geithner
A measure such as this should have been law forty years ago. Why are we just now considering something that should have been slam-dunk common sense decades before?
Fire each of them as well as all the other federal parasites. get rid of any union activities. Send them to prison.
Taxes are for little people. And yes I had a run-in with the IRS, too, but I didn’t let it get that far...........
Who gets to fire Charlie Rangel and Timmy Geithner?
You got my vote...
IF and only IF...
All cabinet candidates and Judge nominations are included.
As well as "protected" members of Congress (they know who they are; a certain minority congressCriminal "celebrated" in the street after he got away with it.)
Similar experience here. Had a dispute with the IRS and they put a lien on my bank account (which resulted in a bunch of bills bouncing).
FedGov does not provide for garnishment of employee pay? If they don't, then depts should be ordered to junk their payroll systems and go with an outside company like ADP.
Don’t they suffer withholding like the rest of us?
Har Har. When pigs fly, etc.
I'm gonna throw out a little thought for the folks here. Wouldn't be interesting to run the numbers and see what the ratio of personal audits is based on voter registration/party affiliation.
Yes, difficult to comprehend, given that the Federal Government has control of their paychecks and can just dock their pay.
But what will Geithner do?
BUT I admit securing the Senate have to happen first..
Sooo I say de-FUND or at least UNDER-FUND...
I00,000 federal workers. That is quite a bit. I wonder how that is possible. Taxes are taken out of checks automatically. Now perhaps they owe more. I say that if they are retirement eligible make them retire by October 2011. If they are not retirement eligible, tell them they have to pay before June 2011 or they will be dismissed without benefits. I bet you would suddenly have an influx of payments making their way to IRS.
Fire each of them as well as all the other federal parasites. get rid of any union activities. Send them to prison.
I say we do this with the public sector too. I bet that number is WAY more than 100,000.
Sorry meant private sector.
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