Lots of phony numbers are being thrown around on the amount of taxes owed and those collected. Apparently, we’ve been leaking trillions over the years and as a direct result of a scaled back IRS. The same IRS that illegally kept conservative non-profits from realizing legal benefits. Now we see the Marxists looking to expand the IRS by adding 80,000 new employees, all unionized of course, and opening our bank accounts for government view.
Part of my career was as an “auditor”. Each budget year, I had to fight for more staff and the way I did that was to show how much money I was saving the company through my “audits”. When my staff showed up at a Manager’s desk, it was not a warm reception. They knew we had to justify our existence on the backs of their department. We focused on process and ultimately, both the Manager and the Company benefitted from our work but who benefits when and IRS auditor pulls a rabbit regulation out the hat and hits you with more taxes owed AND a penalty; the State. Adding 80,000 more auditors to the IRS and providing them with a microscope into our finances is a recipe for more skullduggery of the kind in the 2016 election.
We are humans and it is our nature to preserve and improve our lot in life. Do you think for one minute that an IRS auditor who is compensated by finding more tax dollars will see it in their heart to understand the complexity of the tax code and how we peons are supposed to bow to it? The tax code is a behemoth and resides in several places. First are the actual laws, then the IRS regulations and finally, case law. The culmination of this is a 70,000 page “Standard Federal Tax Reporter” publication produced by Commerce Clearing House. (https://taxfoundation.org/how-many-words-are-tax-code)
If you think that you will get a fair hearing when the rules are written by the very people adjudicating the case, I have some dogecoins in my pocket I’ll sell you. Making the IRS bigger and tasking them with finding even a portion of the supposed tax leakage is akin to giving a gun to a criminal and standing in front of them waving cash. Opening our private banking accounts to the state, is something China does, not a free society. Add to this some interest in a digital dollar that will enable the state to track every transaction your make and you can see how far afield of our free society we have come.
Of course, we want everyone to pay their full share of taxes owed but to suggest that trillions are being left on the table is a farce. If it’s even a fraction of that, its’ because of the poor construct of our tax system with carve outs for those who have an in, and a lack of transparency for us little people on how it all works. The big government pattern continues. Make things so complicated you can’t possibly stay on top of it. Have the state use that complexity to ruin you if they so choose, and blame you for your own demise. The sheep being led to slaughter have a better chance.
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