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CoherentlyConfused
reply to post by corvuscorrax
Well, it's not JUST about paying our taxes. That's bad enough. This is a NEW tax that isn't wanted and now, as the OP suggests, THE most powerful government agency that exists has been put in charge of its execution. So it's not just that we already keep getting hammered from every angle by the government (local, state and federal) trying to take away our money, now they have a new direction they'll be coming from. I'm not laughing at all.
corvuscorrax
CoherentlyConfused
reply to post by corvuscorrax
So now people who couldn't afford health insurance will be forced to do so, and if they don't, they will have to pay a fine (tax, fee, whatever). And if they can't pay that, interest and penalties will just pile exponentially on top of it until the IRS seizes everything you have. And it will happen-- not due to willful non-compliance but because people are BROKE in this country.
And you're okay with all that just because your mom works for the IRS?edit on 27-9-2013 by CoherentlyConfused because: (no reason given)
No, I'm okay with that because this country has allowed the tendrils of big government to permeate it without so much as a complaint. When these things begin to happen, know that it has been a long time coming and still no one did anything about it.
I look at it as poetic justice.
edit on 27-9-2013 by corvuscorrax because: (no reason given)
I look at it as poetic justice.
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
John Philpot Curran, 1790
Same as it ever was
David Byrne, et al.