Roskam makes taxpayers fund vicious IRS hit piece
If my congressman Peter Roskam were a capitalist instead of a career politician, he'd make his company go broke faster than your can say ENRON. That is because his first brilliant idea for success would be to look at the Accounts Receivable department and...slash its budget. 'They're a bunch of thugs exploiting the beleaguered small businessmen who owe us money', Roskam would pontificate.
Silly, you say? Not in the least. Roskam is at it again, sending dog whistle mailings at our expense to inflame his anti IRS, anti taxation base who, like Roskam, care not a whit about the commons which breaths life into our society.
Roskam and his GOP have been at war with the IRS for two decades now, and their war is paying off handsomely for the only crowd they serve. A new study estimates 400 billion is lost annually from tax cheating. Most of that could be recovered but for one silly detail: Roskam's GOP keeps cutting IRS funding. This April they extracted $600,000 in cuts to the IRS in return for not shutting down the government over the spending bill. This year the IRS is $1.3 billion short of funding needed to close the tax cheat gap. Yet, every dollar the IRS spends on enforcement brings in ten dollars of legitimate taxation. And guess who gets the biggest break in a decimated IRS? Yep, the greedy rich. A GOP crippled IRS hasn't a chance against their high priced mouthpieces so they now primarily audit lower income taxpayers unable to afford F. Lee Bailey. When the GOP failed in its attempt to permanently repeal the estate tax, it retaliated by forcing layoffs of IRS lawyers responsible for estate tax enforcement. Yet, the meager audits of large taxable gifts found Uncle Sam got shortchanged 85% of the time, prompting the Treasury Department to tell Congress that its major problem was tax cheating by the highest earning Americans. Tax fraud by the wealthy creates a "non-compliance tax" on the average household of $2,700 a year; a fun fact you'll never get in Roskam's irresponsible taxpayer paid IRS mailing.
Returning to the idea of Peter Roskam as capitalist I have advice; stay a career politician. Companies don't hire CEO's who consider collecting the lifeblood of continued existence a frivolity.
Walt Zlotow
Glen Ellyn
Silly, you say? Not in the least. Roskam is at it again, sending dog whistle mailings at our expense to inflame his anti IRS, anti taxation base who, like Roskam, care not a whit about the commons which breaths life into our society.
Roskam and his GOP have been at war with the IRS for two decades now, and their war is paying off handsomely for the only crowd they serve. A new study estimates 400 billion is lost annually from tax cheating. Most of that could be recovered but for one silly detail: Roskam's GOP keeps cutting IRS funding. This April they extracted $600,000 in cuts to the IRS in return for not shutting down the government over the spending bill. This year the IRS is $1.3 billion short of funding needed to close the tax cheat gap. Yet, every dollar the IRS spends on enforcement brings in ten dollars of legitimate taxation. And guess who gets the biggest break in a decimated IRS? Yep, the greedy rich. A GOP crippled IRS hasn't a chance against their high priced mouthpieces so they now primarily audit lower income taxpayers unable to afford F. Lee Bailey. When the GOP failed in its attempt to permanently repeal the estate tax, it retaliated by forcing layoffs of IRS lawyers responsible for estate tax enforcement. Yet, the meager audits of large taxable gifts found Uncle Sam got shortchanged 85% of the time, prompting the Treasury Department to tell Congress that its major problem was tax cheating by the highest earning Americans. Tax fraud by the wealthy creates a "non-compliance tax" on the average household of $2,700 a year; a fun fact you'll never get in Roskam's irresponsible taxpayer paid IRS mailing.
Returning to the idea of Peter Roskam as capitalist I have advice; stay a career politician. Companies don't hire CEO's who consider collecting the lifeblood of continued existence a frivolity.
Walt Zlotow
Glen Ellyn
posted by Walt Zlotow at 5:30 AM
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