Posted on 04/15/2015 5:15:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
...Some people are hard up and can’t afford to pay their taxes. But others simply choose not to pay. When traditional enforcement strategies, like charging above-market interest rates on the debt, don’t work, the government uses a number of tools to collect these taxes.
But traditional collection methods don’t always work. In a recent study, we used another strategy that got results: publicly shaming tax delinquents. It should be a key part of government efforts to increase the collection of tax debts, and thanks to the Internet and social media, the government has the means to make it even more effective.
We believe that shaming policies are an effective tool and should be part of the effort to make citizens pay their fair share. More effective and fair tax collection will fund the infrastructure, research and education that pave the way for economic growth and opportunity.
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No. Taking money out of the productive economy and putting it into the wasteful, destructive government will nut fund growth and prosperity.
What a laugh riot. The libtards who have so successfully eliminated shame from our society now want to bring it back to fund their big gummint schemes? Laughing so hard I am crying!
You know, the 47% who benefit from public works but pay nothing in exchange for voting democrat.
There are two issues. First, the spending agenda needs to be corrected. Second, everyone...from private citizens in Topeka, Kansas to some barbershop in Charleston, to some corporation in New York City....needs to pay a ‘fair’ share.
Once we determine that fair share...then we tell the gov’t guys that’s all you have...so you rank and file the priorities and spend only what you have. No bank loans to cover extra invented ‘gifts’ to voters or special people.
Personally, I think some amount around ten-percent from just about every private guy and every business operation is more than enough to cover the basic needs of the nation. If folks think they need to spend more....well, they will just have to wait till next year when the next collection of the hat is completed, and take it out of that collection.
Our priorities are screwed up...once you know the fair amount, then you spend or allocate based on that alone.
I imagine most of those names will be liberals.
Come on. We know what the "fair share" is --- more, more, more, more, more!
“shaming policies”
The Scarlet “T”, a good precursor to yellow armbands for Christians, TEA Party members, gun owners, you name it.
> Once we determine that fair share
THIS is why we need a FLAT TAX.
Even the Russians have a flat tax!
You do realize that by putting “fair” in quotes you are saying something like so-called or not really. The problem is nobody can agree on what fair is. There was a time when we had no income tax. And we grew into the greatest nation on earth.
I was at a Chamber luncheon and heard a School Board member speak in support of the group being promoted.
He literally popped the joke about how kids need a good education so they can go to work and earn a decent living to support Social Security and his lifestyle.
It is NOT just the 47% of those that don’t pay taxes.
Our government has spent its way into a Ponzi scheme and Federal dollars turn more people every day. There is much to be said about the cliche ‘we are the Romans’...
Put simply, insofar as this thread goes, there is no ‘shaming’ those that worked their entire lives and are collecting both a public pension AND social security and everything else governments have handed public workers...and the rest of everyone with their hands out.
In more ways than one, we have definitely crossed the Rubicon...
Good luck shaming a libtard!
Why don't we start re-instituting shame in those places. Then we can talk about "tax cheats."
How about publicly shaming the spendthrifts and elitists who so recklessly fritter away the public treasury? How about shaming the myopic malcontents who propose expensive program after expensive program that utterly fail to accomplish their objectives? How about shaming the mindless liberal drones who spasmodically support higher taxes and bigger government then act surprised when people object to giving up more of their money?
Taxes are extortion. There is no other way to define them. Therefore, they should be limited to what is necessary to fund the legitimate and necessary functions of government.
Timothy Geithner, Al Sharpton-the left hardly believes in shaming tax delinquents, rather they make them spokesmen or high administration members.
This isn't about tax policy and the "rich not paying their fair share". This is about how to collect taxes from deadbeats who legally owe taxes but aren't paying.
And, yes, in my opinion, these people (and those not paying child support) should be "shamed" in many cases.
If you a person gets more in welfare than they pay in taxes you are not allowed to vote? They don't have any skin in the game, just a vested interest in the skin of others.
You know, the 47% who benefit from public works but pay nothing in exchange for voting democrat.
Remember when Obama said "Everyone must have skin in the game?"
What he really meant was everyone who didn't vote for him could pick up the tab.
The moochers and illegals get a free ride, and the wealthy Hollywood and Northeast elite who throw hundreds of millions at democrats get sweetheart deals
But the middle class taxpayer gets the federal government BOOT on the neck.
A Western Pennsylvania borough recently jailed a woman over $130 in unpaid wage tax. Please explain to me exactly WHAT GOOD that did for ANYBODY.
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