Trade2Much you are very correct and I am hoping finally many peoples' eyes are opening up to see how things really are with our screwed up government and privilege of the wealthier over the common citizen...
What makes me sick over these tax cheats Obama is appointing is these are the very persons who are supposed to represent the American people and our democratic system at its highest levels and know what the laws are and what is expected; but they are so highly compensated and live in a small world of elitists like them, they forget where they came from...
I even recently had my 2nd episode with IRS and I am beyond upset at hearing about these Obama picks who willfully did not pay owed taxes over $100,000.00 and act like they had no idea or forgot? If this were me or anyone else who is the normal citizen, the IRS would be on your doorstep in a minute....!! For Example, I came home from work last winter and had a visit by courier with certified large envelope from IRS and contents I signed for, basically were a demand letter and threat for me to contact IRS immediately (they didn't know my new address supposedly) as there was some former 3rd quarter business tax owed like $15,000.00 - $30,000.00 and all my known assets would be frozen and bank accounts, etc. etc.... So after I did this the next day losing work mind you, it saw me get involved with IRS investigators for 6 months and all my past tax files (personal & business in storage) to find that someone stole an old EIN number I once had in a state I no longer lived in for 12 years, and they were using that for false IRS filings and receiving refunds, etc. and when it was all revealed, the IRS finally sent me a letter that didn't say "thank you for working with us", but it was this form type letter stating I did my duty as a taxpayer and cleared my outstanding debt to them and the case would be closed. But there was no "case", as I did not owe them any taxes as I was first contacted about, as filings they saw were from some scammer or such using an old retired EIN number from a business I sold in 1996, but the IRS never came at me nicely about it- they threatened me about going to jail for not paying my business tax due and fines and so forth.. But I had to do the leg work and waste time running around to provide years of tax copies and forms to show them I was who I was here, and that I could not be the party in another state they evidently were receiving bad tax filings from.
My 1st bad experience with IRS was when I went through 2 1/2 year divorce mess in Colorado courts 11 years ago, and when everything was done and I was bankrupt & broke (no retirement left, no college fund for kids, no assets, house force sold by judge, etc), the IRS then contacted me the next year and audited me because they saw my tax filing the next year show a smaller income than previously seen on 1040's and red flagged me.. SO I cooperated from the start and the agent even then was nasty to me, demanded things from me, and even acted like some Nazi saying if I refused to cooperate in any way, that I could face prisonment and harsh fines, etc... Just the things you want to hear from your government when you did nothing wrong!.. Well when that issue was all investigated and checked, it was found there was some issue on a past joint tax filing with my then ex-wife years before, and so when this amount was realized from receipts the IRS checked and so forth, I contacted the ex-wife's lawyer and her saying since it was to do with her IRA early withdrawl she made, I said I would split that tax bill 50-50 just to get this thing behind us to make new start after so much misery already with her in court system over her wants & demands.... Well the ex said "go to hell" to me of course, and so I ended up paying my half of that debt anyway plus several years after when I did remarry, the IRS came and took mine & my new wife's tax refunds to repay the other half of that debt from my ex wife and we had no say each time and only received letter to the effect- and my current wife to this day of course is still very upset the IRS took tax refund monies of hers to repay my ex wife's backtax obligation, but the IRS didn't care. They told me then it was a civil issue I had to go back to court to get a judge to demand my ex repay me/us for what we paid as the IRS had no part of that and only saw me, the "man" and "head of household" living in another state and income coming in that "household" which they took all tax refunds for several years until that debt was repaid..
So you see, the last 10 years or so, I have experienced the IRS and their cold ways and each time, I did my part as a legal tax paying citizen, but first time was forced to repay my ex-wife's debt in taxes plus a second time last year they came at me for quarterly Form 4 business taxes I never owed as someone stole some EIN numbers and threatened me with prison for not paying my biz taxes..... SO YOU TELL ME HOW THE HELL OBAMA'S TOP PICKS CAN GET AWAY SO LONG WITH SUCH HUGE TAX BILLS AND ACT LIKE IT IS NO PROBLEM, AS I FOR ONE AS A HARD WORKING TAXPAYER HAVE EATEN CRAP AND DEALT TO IRS 2 TIMES WITH NOTHING BUT HEARTACHE EACH TIME AND NO COMPASSION FROM THEM...???
IRS, or I should say, the federal Govt has every bit of info on us stored in data centers so it is not hard to find anyone they need to find at any time.
