The Real Problem Behind The IRS Scandal

[bobabode]

No comment^? Figures...

[Charles]

Originally Posted by merrylander

I feel for people that work at the IRS, we use a tax accountant because I simply would go nuts trying to fill out that mess they call the tax forms. Imagine the poor sod who has to validate them.

I figure that they're like cops.

Most of them are decent folks who are just trying to make a living. But whenever you're in a position of authority such as that, it doesn't take very many assholes to poison the well for everyone.

Of course, this thread isn't about the poor rank & file slob doing his job, it's about the big cheeses using their power to affect elections.

Now down here in Bugtussell, we call that political corruption. And we're even so ignorant as to think that anyone who gets caught doing it should wind up in jail.

And while we're ignorant, we're also realistic. Speaking for myself, if anyone goes to jail, it will be some poor, dumb bastard who was simply doing what he was told.

Once again, color me jaded,

Chas

[bobabode]

Obama stole the election? That's a mighty big stretch, Chas.

[barbara]

Originally Posted by Charles

I figure that they're like cops.

Most of them are decent folks who are just trying to make a living. But whenever you're in a position of authority such as that, it doesn't take very many assholes to poison the well for everyone.

Of course, this thread isn't about the poor rank & file slob doing his job, it's about the big cheeses using their power to affect elections.

Now down here in Bugtussell, we call that political corruption. And we're even so ignorant as to think that anyone who gets caught doing it should wind up in jail.

And while we're ignorant, we're also realistic. Speaking for myself, if anyone goes to jail, it will be some poor, dumb bastard who was simply doing what he was told.

Once again, color me jaded,

Chas

Don't think you are jaded. Think you are right.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Obama stole the election? That's a mighty big stretch, Chas.

Never said that, you did.

Thought I was talking about political corruption.

Chas

[bobabode]

Big cheeses affecting elections? Just reading between the lines, Chas.
The only corruption that I'm seeing is the use of 501(c)(4) tax exempt status to engage in politics. I don't care if it's left or right of the political spectrum. Unfortunately it's been going on since Ike's boy in the IRS in 1959 changed the law by taking exclusively to mean primarily. As to the IRS engaging in political warfare? I don't believe it happened.
What do I know, I'm just an ex roofer who probably is suffering from post traumatic heat stroke.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Big cheeses affecting elections? Just reading between the lines, Chas.
The only corruption that I'm seeing is the use of 501(c)(4) tax exempt status to engage in politics. I don't care if it's left or right of the political spectrum. Unfortunately it's been going on since Ike's boy in the IRS in 1959 changed the law by taking exclusively to mean primarily. As to the IRS engaging in political warfare? I don't believe it happened.
What do I know, I'm just an ex roofer who probably is suffering from post traumatic heat stroke.

I thought Nixon got caught using the IRS to punish his enemies. Unacceptable then, unacceptable now.

And, to tell the truth, I'm getting too drunk to engage in any sort of a response. I was having a great deal of fun, but that is no longer the case.

Time to eat supper and go to bed. People are counting on me tomorrow.

BTW, I had the most kick ass dream last night. It morphed from reality to a R. Crumb (familiar with him) landscape, and was beginning to become the most entertaining lucid dream I've ever had...until I woke up. Then I couldn't go back to sleep.

Ever have a lucid dream? An absolute hoot!!!!

Maybe I did do too much acid whenever I was younger. Don't too much matter, I woke up and ruined it.

Chas

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Charles

I thought Nixon got caught using the IRS to punish his enemies. Unacceptable then, unacceptable now.


Chas

I agree, Chas. One little difference tho. Tricky Dick got caught red handed at it and provided the tapes that proved it. No Watergate here, my friend.
I'm on my second Modelo especial so I guess I've got some catching up to do.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Charles

BTW, I had the most kick ass dream last night. It morphed from reality to a R. Crumb (familiar with him) landscape, and was beginning to become the most entertaining lucid dream I've ever had...until I woke up. Then I couldn't go back to sleep.

Ever have a lucid dream? An absolute hoot!!!!

Maybe I did do too much acid whenever I was younger. Don't too much matter, I woke up and ruined it.

Chas

Yeah, I had a very lucid, (Or, would that be lurid? Maybe both?), dream one night in the barracks. Unfortunately, my roomates heard the animal noises I was making and saw the circus tent I had erected. Then came the volcano...................

It took me two years to live that down.

Dave

[merrylander]

Only time I ever dreampt in colour was when I was 10, lying in a hospital bed with a broken leg and a blood stream full of morphine.