Posted on 02/06/2009 8:40:02 AM PST by george76
The majority of Americans say most members of Congress don’t pay all the taxes they owe. In fact, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 15% are confident that their elected representatives do pay the taxes they levy on others.
While the Obama administration struggles over Cabinet nominees who “forgot” to pay taxes, 55% of American adults say that behavior is typical for most members of Congress.
Seventy-two percent (72%) of the nation’s adults say there is double standard with one set of rules for well-connected people and another set of rules for everybody else. This skepticism has increased by six points since mid-January. At that time, tax troubles were surrounding Tim Geithner, who has since been confirmed as Treasury Secretary.
This week, former Senator Tom Daschle, President Obama’s nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services, withdrew his nomination following disclosures that he failed to pay more than $120,00 in taxes. But the Senate was reportedly prepared to approve his nomination anyway.
In the Federalist Papers, written to promote passage of the U.S. Constitution, it was argued that the best way to control a member of Congress was to insure that he had to eventually come back and live under the laws imposed on the rest of us. That mechanism appears to have broken down in an era where incumbents hardly ever go home.
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I would bet that given an audit of every single congress critter and senator, almost all of them have unreported income of some sort. Travel, expenses, clothing, gifts...
US Congress thinks they’re American royalty; we’re the peons they have to put up with. The rules they make are never for them to live by.
1) “Seventy-two percent (72%) of the nation’s adults say there is double standard”
2) “That mechanism appears to have broken down in an era where incumbents hardly ever go home.”
Two big issues. We no longer trust them as they have stopped earning our trust and, they never come home to be accountable. They retire in Florida I guess.
Suppose you’re a low-level IRS agent. You have to make the decision as to whether blowing the whistle on a political bigshot will boost or your career or end it. What do you suppose happens most of the time?
The interesting thing about the Obama appointment tax problems is that it pretty much demonstrates that almost ALL of these well-connected people cheat on their taxes, to a greater or lesser degree.
That is why Rangel is still there.
GOP’s “culture of corruption” strategy for 2010 is in full gear, if they don’t blow it we may get the government back...
So which 3 Democrat Senators pay their taxes?
Some of my relatives were getting involved in some trust scam which the salesmen told them they could avoid taxes like the Kennedies do. I asked one if she could call up an IRS agent investigating her and say (in my best Fat Ted accent) "If you audit my family, you'll be doing all you future audits in Fah-go". She didn't have a response. Guess what? The trust got hammered by the IRS like I warned.
Definitely. That, and, it’s illegal to, well, you know... ;’D
Whoops, forgot... and thanks geo.
Obama administration sounds like a short lived TV program called Name the democrat that paid taxes.
Obviously the survey was off by 45%. NONE of them live by the rules they impose on the rest of us.
Maybe, we should start reporting these obviously illegal tax evasions by rats to the IRS and to the following site.
Former IRS Attorneys for Tax Whistleblower Rewards
Tax Whistleblower Reward Program
The United States of America Will Pay Huge Rewards to Anyone Who Exposes the Under reporting of Tax
THE PROBLEM: Billions of Dollars in Unpaid Taxes
In the United States of America, a small percentage of taxpayers (i.e., individuals, businesses, trusts, and estates) underreport and fail to pay up to $400 billion in taxes every year, according to a study released by the Internal Revenue Service. This small group is comprised of an elitist group of wealthy Americans and businesses who neglect or refuse to pay their fair share of tax and who undermine the stability of the country to satisfy their own personal greed. This missing revenue causes unnecessary increases in annual deficits, national debt, and national interest payments. In the end, this missing revenue must be made up by honest Americans through higher taxes.
Each year, the United States is forced to spend over $11 billion to finance IRS enforcement efforts aimed at catching individuals and corporations who underreport and fail to pay tax. However, the schemes, devices, and shelters used by these individuals and corporations to avoid the payment of tax have become so sophisticated that efforts by the IRS to detect them have failed. As a result, the annual amount of unreported and unpaid tax has steadily grown each year. Confronted with the devastating effect of the ongoing and systematic underreporting of tax by individuals and corporations, the United States is taking a new approach to enforcement efforts aimed at detecting the underreporting and nonpayment of tax.
THE SOLUTION: The American People
In recently enacted legislation (December 2006), Congress turned to the American people to expose taxpayers (i.e., individuals, businesses, estates, and trusts) who underreport and fail to pay tax. The United States has announced that it will reward any person who provides information that leads to the identification of $2 million or more of unreported tax, including interest and penalties. This new legislation guarantees that any person who provides information under this “Tax Whistleblower Reward Program” will receive a minimum of 15%, and a maximum of 30%, of the amount that the IRS actually collects. The new law, which provides a potential “windfall” to honest Americans who expose those who underreport and fail to pay tax, is known as the IRS Whistleblower Reward Program.
If you have information regarding a taxpayer (i.e., an individual, business, estate, or trust) that under reported or failed to pay tax, you will be rewarded by the United States for providing such information. Contact us NOW to start the process of identifying tax avoidance and obtaining your reward! Your confidentiality is guaranteed!
Posts like this one continue to validate my 2009 tagline.
They vote for them anyway...every election!
F the “American” people, they are useless.
It is time to separate.
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