Bush to Push for Bigger IRS Budget

[springhill]

Yep, lets go after the little guy some more, while the corporations run and hide (well really they don't even have to hide).

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&ncid=509&e=11&u=/ap/20050201/ap_on_bi_ge/irs_budget

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) will ask Congress to give the Internal Revenue Service (news - web sites) an extra $500 million to pursue tax evaders and increase collections, the Treasury Department (news - web sites) said Tuesday.

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"Increasing enforcement not only catches tax cheats but discourages others from avoiding paying their taxes," said Treasury Secretary John Snow.

[Robbien]

1. But I thought Bush wanted everyone to pay less tax through tax cuts

Why do we need to spend MORE money to collect LESS taxes? That is bad business.

[aquart]

2. Well, Bush IS the guy who said the rich evade taxes anyway

so why tax 'em.

I assume this is to make sure the IRS NEVER goes after rich guys.

[merwin]

3. Weaving the web with the LBN link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1204494

[CoffeeCat]

4. I thought Bush...

...wanted to dismantle the IRS and switch to a consumption tax.

OH, I forgot. That was before he hatched his ambitious goal of: Global Expansive Totalitarianism Of Forced Freedom, aka GETOFF.

[Cats Against Frist]

5. This is a true story

A few years ago (2000), my boyfriend, who, at the time (we were young, pre-child and heavy drinkers:party: :toast:), made $16,000, and claimed "exempt" on his tax return. After I sobered up and kicked his ass at tax time, I figured that he really owed just a couple hundred dollars, or something. Not that much. We were poor at the time, so we didn't pay it, and then forgot about it.

He didn't file in 2001, which means he bypassed part of his tax return (which most likely ended up being MORE than he owes now), and in 2002, he filed, they paid him -- no big deal.

This is 2005. We just returned our 2003 taxes (which we both get returns), and they are HOLDING his, because of the 2000 tax thing.

It burns my ass to no fucking end that they have someone staffed to chase down families who make, IN TOTAL, $40,000 a year for a couple hundred bucks, when, at the top of the food chain, piles of money, Scrooge McDuck style are going tax free, people are sheltering their money in Ireland, and using OUR infrastructure to form a company "offshore," and don't pay OUR taxes.

Can anyone tell me what happened to justice?

[LiberallyInclined]

6. Have the heads of the freepers started exploding yet?

wasn't * talking about abolishing the IRS during the campaign?

[Democrats_win]

7. Opportunity knocks? Coors decreased his tax by $200,000

This time of year, everyone is thinking about and hating taxes. So why not point out how the rich republicans avoid paying them.