Fox News reports that a Florida public school administrator called the sheriff after a pair of consenting 12-year-olds shared a kiss on the playground: Lee County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to Orange River Elementary School after two female students were debating over who liked a 12-year-old boy more. At that point, one of the girls walked over and [...]
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Courtesy of Paul Caron in Johnston: Your Tax Dollars At Work, Unconstitutionally: Reuters, A Gift, From NY to Abu Dhabi, by David Cay Johnston: How does being taxed to give money to the oil-rich kingdom of Abu Dhabi and its hereditary ruler strike you? The cost, if you live in New York State, comes to about [...]
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WebCPA reports that the IRS increased the number of fraudulent tax refund claims it detected and stopped during the 2011 tax-filing season by 171 percent over the previous year: As of April 30, 2011, the IRS had identified 775,723 tax returns with $4.6 billion claimed in fraudulent refunds and prevented the issuance of $4.4 billion, [...]
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If President Obama were like George Washington and could not tell a lie, this is what he would say to the American taxpayer: Yes, we are going to increase your taxes, but don’t worry. If we waste those funds, we’ll just increase your taxes again. An entity that can raise its “prices” without consequence (i.e. without the loss of “business” [...]
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Ed O’Keefe of WaPo has the scoop on yet another case of government waste in Dead Federal Retirees are Paid $120 Million Annually, Report Says: The federal government pays out millions of dollars to dead people each year — including deceased retired federal workers, according to a new report. Inspector General Patrick E. McFarland, who [...]
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Here’s Exhibit “4,981″ showing why people who actually want to give more of their money to the federal government are a couple of ants short of a picnic: WASHINGTON – Individuals who are not authorized to work in the United States received billions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last year in a [...]
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The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has released Some Taxpayer Responses to Math Error Adjustments Were Not Worked Timely and Accurately (2011-40-059). Here’s a brief summary: Most (98.4%) of the approximately 8.6 million math error notices were agreed to by the taxpayer. However, our review identified that some responses in which taxpayers disagreed with the math [...]
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