It’s tax time, and once again, we will be forced to knuckle under to our government’s demands. If you suspect there is plenty wrong with the current system, here are some facts to support your suspicions.
The U.S. tax code is now 3.8 million words long. All of Shakespeare’s works are 900,000 words long.
According to the National Taxpayers Union, U.S. taxpayers spend more than 7.6 billion hours complying with federal tax requirements. In 1937, two pages of instructions came with a Form 1040; today, 189 pages are necessary.
There have been 4,428 changes to the tax code in just the past 10 years.
The IRS currently offers 1999 different publications.
Fifteen years ago, as a test, 46 professional tax preparers completed a hypothetical tax return. All 46 of them came up with a different result. Do you think the same test tried today would be any different?
The Tax Foundation says the average American has to work until April 17 to pay all federal, state, and local taxes. January 22 was Tax Freedom Day in 1900.
America is the only country that taxes citizens on what they earn in foreign countries.
86% of IRS revenue comes from just 20% of Americans.
Total confiscation of the money earned by all those making $250,000 or more would provide just 38% of the federal budget once.
America’s 35% corporate tax rate is the highest in the world.
Because of this high tax rate, so many corporations have moved overseas that one 26,000 person town in Switzerland is the home of 30,000 corporations.
In 1950, when corporate tax rates were low, they amounted to 30% of IRS receipts. Today that number has fallen to just 7% as the corporate exodus continues.
Although not a cent went to the IRS, Exxon-Mobil “paid” $15 billion in taxes in 2009.
The International Monetary Fund estimates Americans are storing $18 trillion (no, that is not a typo) overseas to keep this money from the government’s clutches.
Paying the IRS is so stressful on the average American that each year, the number of auto wrecks climbs around April 15th.
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If you think the IRS has been rough in the past, you ain't seen nothen yet. With Onumnuts increasing the IRS by approximately 21K employees, they will be doing more audits than ever before to wring out every dollar possible to help make up for the money Obummer has squandered tp date.
I have been saying for years and years, and YEARS, that this is wrong, all kinds of wrong, this INFERNAL RIPOFF SITUATION! It was supposed to be a “temporary fix” back in 1913, I beleive it was, and was not “supposed” to continue as it has, to snowball into a seperate entity, and become more powerful than even the government. If we American citizens ALL refused to play this game of theirs, where only THEY win, we could have stopped this powerful, and power hungry THING from growing into what it has, the entity that TERRORIZES all of us with this “deadline”, and what can happen if one does not pay the forced blackmail! I have had a couple of “run in’s” with this thing, and I am here to tell you, they are no one to mess with, for they will take every single penny you have, and you will wind up out on the streets, with no food or shelter at all! And to use their words, “WE DON”T CARE”! I was told this by an IRS agent long ago, and that fact still holds true, they DO NOT CARE, THEY WILL TAKE ALL THAT YOU HAVE AND TO HELL WITH YOU OR YOUR WELL BEING! Does anyone remember why we had the First American Revolution against Great Britian? DO you? UNFAIR TAXATION AND OPPRESSION OF THE COLONISTS! Does this sound at all familiar to anyone in todays’ America? Where every right we felt we had was violated, and suppressed, and we were hauled off to prison for speaking against King George? Did anyone bother to learn American HISTORY in school? Or, did everyone find it “boring”? To those of you who know your American history, does it not feel like there is a Second American Revolution around the corner for us? If we are to maintain our basic freedoms and life styles, it would seem to me that this is the only solution we now have, to rise up, as our ancestors did, and fight for all of what we hold dear as Americans, and for our beautiful country as she was meant to be! Our entire governmental body is out of control, not one, but ALL OF THEM!
By merely looking at the photo that you have here, I have come to realize how relevant and striking your blog is to us. I am sure many people will also have their own opinion or reaction about the message that you have here but in a positive way.
Hell, the IRS has been out of control for eon`s. They are nothing but puppets for the President both past and present and the Congress, although Bill Clinton and the current President seem to use them for more devious purposes against adversaries.