[coloradan]

The agency paid out nearly $150 billion in refunds to 77 million filers and said its website – www.irs.gov – received nearly 2 billion hits during tax season.

LOL! Sounds like a casino billboard telling passersby that their slot machines pay out over $2 million dollars every day. (No mention of what they collect...)

The money "refunded" by the IRS is money they shouldn't have confiscated at gunpoint in the first place, and is money which the government, and not its rightful owners, collected interest on during the period it was in the government's possession. Note that the peasants get no interest, and certainly no penalty, when the government owes them money, but they have to pay high interest and worse penalties to the government when they didn'y pay enough.

[lgjhn]

"Note that the peasants get no interest, and certainly no penalty, when the government owes them money, but they have to pay high interest and worse penalties to the government when they didn'y pay enough."

Just another lash of the dictator's whip to keep the slaves moving along.