Friday, October 1, 2010

Sorry IRS and Social Security Administration, You've Been Voted Off

The other day I had a tax question. I first tried to look it up on the IRS website...but I needed further explanation. So...I called the IRS...or that's what I thought. It turns out that I actually called a call center that just looks up IRS rules and reads them to you verbatim. You can't actually call the IRS. They are untouchable, unreachable. These call center employees aren't CPA's, don't know what the tax codes mean, and haven't been trained in tax law, or in how to interpret the tax codes, or anything to do with the IRS other than reading to you verbatim, so unless you're entirely illiterate...they are unable to help you.

I also asked if I could talk to one of the auditors who would inevitably end up calling me anyway after I've done my taxes wrong. Nope.

They kept forwarding me from one department to another but none of the departments knew anything about how different laws are interpreted. So, I am unable to get explanation. All I can do is submit my taxes, probably wrong, and get audited, and then end up paying the proper taxes and additional fees and interest. Quite the racket.

My sister hit a similar road block with the Social Security Administration. She is handicapped, as is her husband, so she had been receiving Social Security. Each time her husband got a job or lost a job, they had to report it. Which they did. Unfortunately, it took the Social Security Administration a few years to process everything so when they did...they came back to her and told her she wasn't eligible for the money they had given her the last few years and they wanted it back. So now, my sister, who is on a tight budget anyway, is expected to immediately come up with $6500.00 and pay it back. Obviously that was impossible. She tried numerous times, as did my mom, to call and explain what had happened. They even drove down to the building to talk with someone...but the only people they were allowed to talk to in person or by phone were people who set up payment plans for paying it back. So now her credit is all messed up and she will be paying $35 a month for the next 16 years to correct not her oversight, but the Social Security Administration's oversight. Again, what a racket.

So here we have two examples of organizations who have grown too big, and too powerful, to serve the people, which is what any government organization should do.

So in order to get back to serving, from today forward the only tax will be a sales tax, that is weighted more heavily on recreational things and less so on necessities of life. There will now be only a limited IRS to collect the sales tax...so there is a big financial savings to the country right there.

We will also be reorganizing the management of the Social Security Administration so that the people on a local level have all the authority to make changes on the accounts.

And as far as the IRS and the Social Security Administration go, there will be no post audits, they can check info when it is submitted, and if they miss something, too bad, it can't be fixed retroactively, but only as far as future interactions.

Power to the People!
Serve the People!
Long live America and Liberty!

Yours truly,
The King

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