Posted on 05/15/2007 5:16:32 AM PDT by Tribune7
By the way, if you go to the US Government Printing Office ( www.gpo.gov ), you can order a complete set of Title 26 of the US Code of Federal Regulations (that's the part written by the IRS), all twenty volumes of it, at the bargain price of $974, shipping included.
According to the US Government Printing Office, it's 13,458 pages in total. The full text of Title 26 of the United States Code (the part written by Congress--available for an additional $179) is a mere 3,387 printed pages, bringing the adjusted gross page count to 16,845.
The number of words has been left as an exercise for the student.
(Excerpt) Read more at trygve.com ...
Granted, nothing federal is on the ballot but it is something to remember.
Remember to vote for the judges and ballot questions.
Granted, nothing federal is on the ballot but it is something to remember.
Remember to vote for the judges and ballot questions.
The tax code itself may only be 16,845 pages, but the font is small.
Will someone please slay this monster? Everyone I vote to send to Washington can’t seem to get up the necessary courage.
My word, that’s a lot of pages! I knew the Tax Code was a large collection, but this number is staggering.
I wonder how many pages there are in the Bible?
The IRS should be required to give each taxpayer a copy of the code for free upon request.
The Government should actually reform the IRS completely.
Tax law shouldn’t be more than a few pages of what you can and can’t deduct.
If'n my cipheren' is correct
If I were king for a day I would institute a couple of simple new laws. First, no new law can exceed in word count the text of the constitution plus ammendments. If you cant get it said in the same space as the entire governments charter then you havent focused sufficiently. No more pork stuck into otherwise laudible bills because it's hidden on page 764 and nobody can read that far.
How Long is a Chinaman.
My wife and I are both salaried, do not own a business or operate a farm, have a few standard deductions and live in a state without a state income tax. I spent nearly $300 this year having my taxes done because even with a computer program it has become simply too complicated to prepare my own return. If our simple financial situation requires such expert preparation it is obvious that our entire tax code is out of whack.
FairTax will slay it.
But liberals and IRS employees will do everything they can to create doubt about the FairTax.
But FairTax will win.
If I were King for a Day......
1. Any law that is passed must include it’s constitutionality, citing the section and/or amendment under which authority it was passed.
2. For any bill that is passed, it cannot span Federal agences or cabinet departments. For example, a bill that provides for interstate funding for the Transportation Department cannot have any rules, legislation or monies for the Department of Agriculture.
3. Abolish the IRS and enact the Fair Tax without the Federal monthly stipend check.
4. Abolish abortion completely.
and on and on and on.....
Simpler: require that any answer that the IRS gives to a tax question be ‘protective’, a term that means if it wrong, the taxpayer is protected from fines or penalties for acting on the answer.
Another fix: make Tax Court follow previous decisions it made. As it is, a taxpayer must prove his own case anew and cannot rely of previous rulings, nor expect the court will acknowledge them.
But this is like suggesting for ways that New York City processes gun permits. We must not accept either as being the ways things should be. In fact, the Income Tax is a monster and an abomination. It destroys financial privacy, it is so complex that the Agency cannot explain it, nor can it fairly enforce it. And worse, the tax code intrudes into many areas of life where government does not belong.
For example, most of the reasons that the Human Rights Campaign gives for supporting gay marriage has to do with the income tax implications. A tax system based on sales taxes would not discriminate for or against anyone.
That, and the massive waste of money in printing and sending out these truckloads of books to people who will be heating their houses with them, although that seems a little self-defeating.
Of course, the only way to stop this madness is to put a stake in the monster's heart, shoot it with a silver bullet and burn it to ashes. And kill the phoenix that's sure to arise.
This KJV I have has 582 in the OT and 179 in the NT.
Good grief that’s ridiculous!
I see.
So, now I wonder if there is ANYONE in the United States who has read the entire US Tax Code?
That would be quite an accomplishment. An empty one, in my opinion, but an accomplishment nonetheless.
How much bigger will it get this year?
God only knows.
Click on the link in the opening post and read the quotes from our elected officials. Not only is it humorous, but it’s scary!
Firstly, none of the quotes are from Democrats. I don’t know why - maybe Dems have no problem with the tax code? Maybe the length and complexity of it makes it easier for them to steal our money? I don’t know.
Secondly, some of those who compared the length of the tax code to the bible are either terrible at math or not personally familiar with the bible they are using as a comparison!
Well, at least they all agree that it’s long and complex! LOL
I read the Bible from time to time, but I’ve never counted the pages. :)
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