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2014-07-03 Government

The Time Has Come: Defund The IRS - Steve Forbes

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Posted by DarthVader 2014-07-03 11:13|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 An idea long past its time.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-07-03 11:14|| 2014-07-03 11:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Any Federal agency that is weaponized against the American people should be defunded or done away with. A flat tax or some other simpler scheme would limit the amount of bureaucracy carry out such a tax law.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-03 11:27|| 2014-07-03 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 bureaucracy [required to] carry out such a tax law...

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-03 11:29|| 2014-07-03 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 as the Instaprof would say - where's the graft in that?

The more money/resources people try to tax/steal from others the more those with money/resources spend on protecting it, which seem strangely to involve buying politicians who do the tax codes, thus the exponential growth in tax laws and regulations and power of the bureaucracy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-03 11:49|| 2014-07-03 11:49|| Front Page Top

#5 very simple. Have a flat tax and the states collect. When the feds play their games of unfunded mandates now the states have the last word.

Posted by airandee 2014-07-03 14:50|| 2014-07-03 14:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Imagine a republican candidate with an "Abolish the IRS" platform.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-03 14:55|| 2014-07-03 14:55|| Front Page Top

#7 I Imagine a 99% turnout.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-07-03 17:34|| 2014-07-03 17:34|| Front Page Top

#8 The entire tax system is a payoff to two constituencies that give lots of money to both parties...tax lawyers and CPAs.

If you made the tax simple, you would put several hundred thousand of these parasites out of work. According to some articles I have read, and I may be wrong about the exact numbers though the magnitude is close, apparently tax preparation is a 10 billion dollar industry to the lawyers and accountants, assessing some dollar value to the time spent preparing individual returns, calculates out to be about the same amount.

Imagine $20 Billion to file income taxes? AND it produces nothing. Alan Greenspan said that any government program that cost money but produces nothing is purely inflationary.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-07-03 20:09|| 2014-07-03 20:09|| Front Page Top

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