[Libloather]

What about teachers and other gubmint employees?

[freekitty]

How about Congress?

[Vinnie]

Zer0 appointees?

[exPBRrat]

Has to be the perfect voter block...if you get the drift.

[kearnyirish2]

How about Tim Geithner? Oh, I think he paid after he was caught.

[Fresh Wind]

The real problem is the FedGov's unwillingness to fire bad employees for any reason, most of which have nothing to do with tax delinquency.

And there are sufficient loopholes in this bill (which amends the existing tax code) to make actually firing someone a long and tedious process.

And that's the crux of the problem. There is so much red tape that a manager needs to go through (not the least of which is EEO), that they are incentivized to simply put the bad employee in a corner and let them play computer games all day rather than trying to get rid of them.

[AHerald]

The government Frankenstein turned against its masters. Commonsense accountability and a pretty clever bit of subversion—love it.

[RadiationRomeo]

I hope everyone understands these people are not your average government workers: their taxes are taken right out of the paychecks. These non-taxpayers are those with significant outside income.

[LibLieSlayer]

Pay your taxes or go to jail... if it was good enough for Al Capone... it is good enough for the crap that infects our government.

LLS

[Revelation 911]

wth does it matter with a house vote? - the repubs will puff up knowing full well senate dems and the president will fight it.....

after healthcare defunding and Boners decision to allow it in the latest stop gap, their nonsense is finally clear for all to see..something many of us here on FR have been saying for years

[Gay State Conservative]

Dirty Harry loves stuff like this.He'll kill it in the Senate and then the Rats will send out a campaign letter to government paycheck recipient unions saying that the evil fascists are trying to break them.

[muawiyah]

This bill targets only federal employees ~ and the statistic says 100,000 of them show up late with their taxes on a yearly basis (which doesn't mean every one of them is late every year, just that there are that many who are late in a given year).

Most of the cause for this lateness has to do with interactions with family courts regarding child support ~ as well as the correct identification of who owed it.

As everyone on FR knows, inasmuch as we are all the world's greatest experts on the federal income tax, child support is taxable at the custodial parent, and is a deduction to the non-custodial parent.

People regularly end up late as state and local courts shilly shally around delaying and deferring final decisions on custody.

The solution is simple ~ apply this to everybody. If your local court can't get custody decided within the framework of a tax year then imprison the judge, fire both the mom and the dad, and seize any property they might have left.

BTW, that's going to go after "the young" ~ but I suspect it would wake everybody up to the fundamental problem here.

[Roccus]

100,000 owing a total of $1,000,000,000 comes to $10,000 per....

just sayin'