[Brian328i]

Late, but none the less didn't see this in a search. Appologies if its already been posted. What else do you expext from the IRS?

[Texas_Jarhead]

what a bunch of effen horse hockey

[no_mm]

outrageous!

..its time we reform the tax CODE (not laws) and boot that non-government IRS Corporation from the pockets of Americans for good.

BOOT BOTH the IRS AND THE UN in one swift kick to their groins >:[

[Prost1]

My grandmother (rest her soul) went to school in Barstow. This is a settlement west on Shaw where some old German built an underground cavern. This Barstow had (has) a one room school. I asked my grandmother with which of the Dauers she went to school. "All of them!" "All of them?"
"Yes! It was only one room!" "And what about your brothers and sisters?" "They were all there! All of them!"

Well, the purpose of this tale is that my Grandmother could read and write better than most high school graduates today! And, she only went to the 6th grade! That's all! Why? Because she had to work on the farm. Her father was a sharecropper. And he needed the support of his children!
But the most important lesson is that there were 2 German families in this school, at least 1 Mexican, 1 Portuguese, and another, for my grandmother said there were 5 families there. All these children, speaking differently, without a linguist teacher and learning, neverhtheless!

[spartan68]

One more reason to scrap the IRS and relegate it to the dust bin of history

[Larry Lucido]

"Now the public is being asked to contribute to the fine."

Wouldn't it be easier for the local congressman to grow some balls and 1) raise hell with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue until the IRS relents due to the horrible publicity, and 2) loudly use this as a platform from which to demand tax reform?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Legislation in the last few years has made this kind of outrage less likely in the case of individual taxpayers, but the IRS can still fully stick it to an entity like a school. What happened was they overstated the amount of quarterly withheld payroll taxes over 3 years -- each overstatement being less than 4 dollars. I'm sure the fine is technically legal, but it's a bureaucratic idiocy of the first order.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Somebody needs to forward this to the Bush White House, this would make great campeign fodder for Tax Reform.

[Imal]

The IRS is doing its job. Complaining about the IRS requires ignorance of the real culprits: our elected representatives.

And we are the ones responsible for electing them.

So go ahead and blame the IRS if you want, I guess its easier than taking responsibility for our own government.

The right thing to do is to change the horrid tax code we have inflicted upon ourselves rather than scapegoating the people we hire to enforce it.

[KarlInOhio]

Amendment VIII - Cruel and Unusual punishment. Ratified 12/15/1791.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

But I guess the 16th ammendment overrides the 8th.

[Prost1]

A simple question. How can a public school be taxed?

The government can't tax the government now, can it?

This story is confusing. Next, the IRS will be taxing libraries, fire and police departments.