I remember how the Republican Congress cut its funding. They say the checks should go out in June-- probably. I'm hoping the economy isn't black in the toaster by then.
But when the president whose name I forget has a 32% rating & w/all the Republican candiates having extensive baggage, what better way to excite the voting public than w/cold hard cash....
First comes the scare tactics including but not limited to "Elect a Democrat & there will likely be another terrorist attack" OR there's the "Elect a Democrat & your bibles & guns will be taken away", etc....Now, they're going with the "elect a Republican & you'll get cash" (in the form of these rebates)..
Elect a Republican and they'll take your welfare checks away, or they'll take your Medicaid away or they'll rewrite Miranda, the list goes on and on from both sides.
As you said, "it's purely political" and both sides do it.
The IRS is not so fucking swamped that they didn't have time or funding to audit my 2004 Taxes and tell me I owe the pricks another $6,345. Now they are auditing my 2005 Tax filing. They have too much funding.
I know $6,300 would put me in a homeless shelter, but taxes aren't going to be easy no matter what agency is collecting them. This idea of a country run with easy taxes, with a "fair" sales tax, is idiocy.
I've never come out of a year owing a lot of taxes, but my father has, and he was audited. He never complained about it. Guess what? He owed a lot of money. He always worked with them and has said that they are the most reasonable creditors you could imagine. . . unless they get the idea you're hiding income.
It is a better than taxes in the past, where the person privileged enough to collect the taxes got to keep a big part them. The mark-up was pretty major. In Russia before the WW1 for instance, the peasants were so poor due to taxes that cabbage soup was a luxury.
I have to agree with your father. The people I dealt with were most agreeable and I've learned to keep more accurate and complete records in the future. They originally wanted $14,525 in back taxes but with the information I sent them, it was reduced to the $6,345. I have no problem paying my share of taxes. I have a tremendous problem with how it is wasted by politicians at all levels of givernment. I'm still in arbitration on the audit for the 2005 taxes. To top it off, I just got layed off Dec 31 at age 64. Can you say "Pension, what pension? We don't owe you no stinking pension".
A friend of mine works at a call center facility for credit card collections. She works in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She told me how in 2005, there was a "change in corporate structure" that resulted in almost 250 employees being let go. Every last empoloyee released was within 18 months of being eligible for a full pension. Having been releaweed, they received severance pay of two weeks plus any accumulated sick time. And no pension. None. Zero. Not even a gold watch or an all expenses paid visit to Disneyland.
At the end of 2006, another 80-odd employees with pensions due within 18 months were let go.
She just turned 54, and is in her 20th year with the company, meaning full benefits and pension. Additionally, she has been one of their top ten producers for the last 7 years, and has the bonus checks and parchment proclamations and plaques to prove it. She got her pink slip on January 3.
I convinced her to hire an attorney. This story isn't quite over, though we already know the outcome.
With all the experienced people laid off from there, why don't you encourage her to find the rest of them and start their own credit card collection company? I guess she could sue them at the same time, put the settlement, if any, into the the capital.
Unfortunate to say, I think credit card collection is going to be a booming business, fortunate for her. There's a lot of opportunity there, and it seems to me there's not a lot of start-up costs. Encourage her to take it. A grudge could make for a very competitive business, you know. Run their faithless ex-employers out of business, and then sell the plot to Hollywood. It's an excellent story.
And oh, please have her send me a finders' fee if it works, as well as let me negotiate for a small part of the box office receipts. It will be a blockbuster. Too many people are being screwed and laid off.
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