Originally Posted by
Judy
What are you saying? I didn't paint anyone as an "anti-big government hero". Republicans have always opposed the income tax, we've opposed it vehemently since it was instituted by Democrats in 1913. We spend more money funding the IRS to process paperwork and invade people's lives than we spend on EPA to clean up and protect our environment.
The annual budget for the IRS in 2016 will be $14 Billion.
The annual budget for the EPA in 2016 will be $8.5 Billion.
You're putting faith in a false government number that isn't accurate, it's manufactured. This is the same government that lies about trade and tells our citizens "free trade is good for America" when it's the complete opposite, that lies about immigration and tells our citizens "illegal aliens do the jobs Americans won't do" when Americans are being fired and replaced with illegal aliens, that lies about unemployment that tells our citizens our unemployment rate is only 5.1% when it's 3 times that number due to the number of people who after looking for work for so long finally gave up doing so.
My point was you're hanging your hat on a false number that isn't true. I gave you the link to show you why it is patently false, a number that is higher during the recession years than their number for 2001, at the height of our economy and tax revenue based on income, which is a mathematical impossibility. Our economy collapsed and stayed that way for years, yet the IRS claims more tax was evaded which means more tax was owed but not paid during those years than in 2001.
You can't get blood from a turnip. When the incomes aren't there because the economy isn't producing the net income to generate the tax, then there is no evasion, it's just no income means no tax.