Unpaid Taxes=$2,680 per Household

[Beowulf]

So claim the Democrats, who want to make us all pay more. So much for being for "Working people!":flame:

That translated into a "surtax" of about $2,680 per household in 2001, the national taxpayer advocate said at a recent hearing of the House Budget Committee. "That is an extraordinary burden to ask our nation's compliant taxpayers to bear every year," Nina E. Olson said.
<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = AT /><AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>"It's not just a budgetary problem," the committee chairman, Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., said at the hearing. "It raises fundamental issues of moral fairness."
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>The new Democratic majority sees these uncollected billions as a major source of revenue that could be used to pay for education, health and other priorities without busting the budget.
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And now watch the Lib trolls start applauding and say that we should be paying more. Fricking Doorknobs!!

[Naturalized-Texan]

The real problem is that those in the underground economy don't pay taxes - drug dealers and other criminals, people receiving cash for services rendered, bartering arrangements (Father to a doctor: I'll paint your house if you take out my daughter's tonsils.), etc. If those in the underground economy paid taxes, we would probably have a balanced budget every year.

The above is one reason that I favor the Fair Tax - a national consumption tax. Under the Fair Tax, when anyone above the poverty level purchases anything - food, clothing, cars, yachts, etc. - they will pay the consumption tax, even the vast majority of those in the underground economy. Under the Fair Tax, everyone pays their fair share of taxes.

[nene]

If those in the underground economy paid taxes, we would probably have a balanced budget every year.Nonsense! Government would only spend more.

[The_Elucidator]

Good grief, quit giving $5000 tax rebate checks to people who already get free healthcare and foodstamps.

[Eagle1]

the flat tax would shore all this right up

[Rhino]

That translated into a "surtax" of about $2,680 per household in 2001, the national taxpayer advocate said at a recent hearing of the House Budget Committee. "That is an extraordinary burden to ask our nation's compliant taxpayers to bear every year," Nina E. Olson said.Crapola. Read the article. For the most part, it's those very same households that are not paying their taxes. And as complicated as our tax code is, it would not surprise me a bit to discover that enforcing those taxes would cost more than the tax revenue itself. Fix the system first. Then go after the evaders.

[DesertFox]

:roar: "Fricking Doorknobs!!"

[BEST45CAL]

It's the IRS's fault for making deals that allow people to pay back what they owe for pennies on the dollar.

Underpaid my A$$.


"It raises fundamental issues of moral fairness."

What do you fcukers know about moral fairness?

Dimz...:rolleyes: