Internal Revenue Service

Has anyone noticed how many people President Obama picked to be in his cabinet that have tax problems? I wonder how many of those people would have paid their back taxes if they weren't picked for cabinet posts. Now I don't believe the President deliberately picked people with tax problems. I think more people owe taxes than just the ones we hear about on the news.

It seems to me that the Internal Revenue Service is falling down on the job.This may be one area where we need to work on our cash flow. Good citizens pay their taxes. They don't necessarily like to pay their taxes, but they do it anyway. We should not put people in high government offices that are not good citizens. People who do not have their taxes in order should not be allowed to run for any government office.

Perhaps the Internal Revenue Service is in need of more people to collect taxes. No, being a tax collector isn't a job a lot of people want to do. Most people don't even want to think about seeing an increase in job availability at the IRS, but if our federal budget is based on income tax, then doesn't it stand to reason that the federal government is spending money they don't have if they don't collect it? Isn't spending money we don't have why were in this mess?

What would be the point of raising taxes on the wealthy if you aren't going to collect the taxes you're already owed? Which is not to say that the wealthy are the only ones that owe back taxes or that all the wealthy owe back taxes. A lot of companies owe back taxes too. The point is that it's not about bigger government or higher taxes. It's about making the government we already have more effective. It is highly unlikely we will ever be able to balance a budget that consists of spending money we don't actually get. Unless, of course, someone invents a new way of doing math.


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