Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

perhaps the irs was so intimidated during the barf admin they were reluctant to go after anyone with means. so moneyed people are just now finding out about little booboos in past returns. well, maybe... or maybe it's the new computer system kicking in.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/03/dittoheads-go-global.html#comment-215761

lb, gm's new name is general mass-transit

where were the kansas media these 3 yrs of their gov not paying her fair share? doesn't ks have a full disclosure law for their officials where all us nosy folk can rummage thru their privates?

patsi......i put one up relating to the "ev-lis in the john" story at the end of the last thread......

my mistake on 1st post. irs didn't expose the booboo, her accountant did when checking her out for potential appt opportunities. guess irs is still using the old abacus and adding machine system... oh, and their ten fingers and ten toes.

" oh, and their ten fingers and ten toes."

patd......they dont have those.....they have tentacles......

"Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink
• Newspaper to be available only on messaging service
• Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

Sebelius's errors don't look particularly egregious to me.

sturge -- the Hank Jr story floors me.

It looks to me as if the Governor and her husband were in the practice of just showing up to sign the accountant prepared tax forms. At least she ordered a combing of the tax records to make sure everything was kosher. At her income level $7,000 over three years is a slight sneeze not double pneumonia.

mqw...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/03/dittoheads-go-global.html#comment-215796

You don't believe in regulation I presume from this comment you left.

After all why regulate when they haven't finished raping, pillaging and plundering our country since there's still more for them Republicans and corporations to steal from the American People.

Prime Minister's Question time can now be watched live on web

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page18735

On now.

mqw...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/03/dittoheads-go-global.html#comment-215806

I guess you forgot the power the Republicans along with some Democrats gave to the previous Repug Bush.

Yes, I'm talking about the MCA of 2006. That's the bill that gave Bush the right to label an American Citizen as Enemy Combatant and strip them of all their rights under what once was the Constitution.

You know, the right to a lawyer and to challenge your detention in a court of Law! Yep, no more Habeas Corpus for you if your labeled an Enemy Combatant. Just rot in prison or Gitmo.

Least we also forgot that Bush\Cheney\Rumsfeld and the rest were all given immunity from prosecution for War Crimes under our laws.

Oh that's right, there above the Law and since when does the Department of No Justice prosecute their own. Not under the previous administration.

and it's been historically proven that they will continue to march with the greed until the pipples get fed up and invade their mansions at midnight......too much seems never to be enough.........we're supporsed to be "evolved" a bit.....this country was formed to be a clean break with those of the past and part of that break would be to Regulate them bastards until they assume a semblance of civilized behavior towards the mosses....uh, Masses..........it always runs into Lord Acton's epigram.....little power-heads and little heads with power who could care less about grannies on the ice floe........

a very large supply of Dollars has simply disappeared over the last 8 years.

Craig...

I have a better idea. Why don't we have the IRS audit all members of Congress, both the House and Senate along with all their staff.

Lets see who else among them have Tax Problems and get this hold up crap out of the way.

I say, "Audit the IRS".

sturgeone...

Ditto...Especially if they were hired under Bush\Cheney since they were all crooks.

Have a good day.

I've just finished this book, and it should be on everyone's reading list: Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan by Kim Phillips-Fein

If I can pay all my taxes on time year in and year out, why is it these people can't pay their taxes.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D979CMGO0&show_article=1

a contrast to the hank story was the time i met Frank Jr. in the "Isis" club on staten island........I went about quarter to eight figuring the joint would be mobbed and when i got there, twenty or thirty people in the joint and Frank Jr was sitting calmly at a table over a cuppa coffee with a manager type.....I went over, of course, to say "Hi" and was prepared to leave it at that and split but he invited me to sit with them a bit and we chatted for awhile about stuff until he had to go get ready..... It was a great show, by the way......his only "problem" seemed to be that he sounded too much like his dad.....

it was a great show.......

"A unique collaboration between The Guardian and Twitter will also see the launch of Gutter, an experimental service designed to filter noteworthy liberal opinion from the cacophony of Twitter updates. Gutter members will be able to use the service to comment on liberal blogs around the web via a new tool, specially developed with the blogging platform WordPress, entitled GutterPress."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

oh.....he was backed by a 12 piece "big band" and his humor was flawless..........

"It is already known that many non-human primates and monkeys can count, and even domestic dogs have been found to be capable of simple additions.

But this is the first time the ability has been seen in such young animals, and with no prior training."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7975260.stm

new recruits for the irs?

TiR...

I pay all mine as well. But then mine is easy to do. Just enter my figures from my W2 or is it W4, take my standard deduction and look up my tax on the tax tables.

Simple, yes.

Unlike them who have stocks, bonds, investment properties and all other kinds of investments. They have accountants do their taxes and as we all know accountants look to take everything they can in deductions.

Of course some are corrupt like we saw with Enron and its accountants while others make honest mistakes since the tax code is so dam confusing to the average citizen.

Then there is also the issue of those who work for the IRS. Ask ten employees a tax question and you will probably get ten different answers.

The Tax Code has to be reformed and be more simple so the above happens less than it currently does now. Until then there will always be problems with filing ones returns.

Hell I have been audited over dependents several times while I was still able to claim them and mine is a simple filing so what does one expect when their returns are more complicated?

Don't bother answering the above since its rhetorical.

Have a good day.

Interesting logic. No job, no tax problems. Give 'em a job, pay 'em, they have to pay taxes & it opens them up to the possibility of tax problems.

No, I think the solution is an all-volunteer cabinet. Maybe not the unemployed, but folks trying work off their community service hours.

So, like, maybe the tax code needs to be simplified or something? Ya know, not only so people can understand it more easily, but so that there isn't an easy way for folks to hide non-payment.

Frank Jr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOiKhLUsF0A

"Thousands have converged on central London to protest against the G-20 summit. Some demonstrators are trying to storm the Bank of England on a day that demonstrators have branded "Financial Fools Day."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/G20_PROTESTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-01-07-42-45

and later:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Mf0-IBCLQ&feature=related

ok.....I'll put on my cape and go now.......the game is afoot...........maybe

where is madame lefarge and her knitting while they storm the bank of england?

I think madame lafarge's time was limited:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0CE2D61F38E333A2575BC0A9679D946590D7CF

lefarge, lafarge......what the heck, anyway.....where's my damn cape?

charges dropped on sen ted stevens

OMG!!!! Did I just hear correctly????

Did Chris Matthews just say that people like Ronald Reagan spent their time reading and thinking?????

WHAT?????

Another crook goes free.

Anyway you look at it---the chances of being audited by IRS if you are in the million+ category--is not high.

"Tempo of Audits drops for Wealthy" NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/business/23tax.html?scp=2&sq=audit%20rate%20irs&st=cse

IRS audited about 4 of every 100 returns with income of at least $1 million in the year ended October, 2008---as per TRAC, a research group associated with Syracuse Univ.

IRS disputes TRAC interpretation, but acknowledges that it audited a smaller portion of those returns than in the past.

IRS says audit rate is 5.6%, not the 4.4% claimed by TRAC

from Huffity Po:

The origins of April Fools' Day are murky, but the likeliest explanation is that it began as a way to mock French people who were slow to switch to the Gregorian Calendar which changed New Year's from April 1 to January 1. These folks were labeled "fools" and some were sent on "fools' errands."

Of course there are alternate theories, specifically ones that ascribe the informal holiday to the cultural impact of the Hilaria Festival of ancient Rome, held on March 25, and the Holi celebration in India, which ends on March 31.

The Museum of Hoaxes has a complete collection of all the theories, but the real problem with explaining April Fools' Day is that you never quite know when someone is trying to fool you with their explanation. The classic example of this comes from Joseph Boskin: Constantine and Kugel. This Boston University professor explained that the holiday stemmed from a moment of political unrest under Constantine, when a group of court jesters said they could run the empire better than he could. He claimed that Constantine was amused so he let a jester named Kugel be king for a day...April 1. The "AP" ran this theory in 1983, only to find out it was Boskin's prank on the American public.

The real fun, as we all know, is executing these pranks ourselves or, at the very least, reveling pranks past. Here is our collection of the five best pranks of all time...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/30/the-history-of-april-fool_n_180097.html?alacarte=1

Unfortunately not an April's Fool joke
Justice Dept drops charges against ex-Senator Stevens
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/01/national/w042746D17.DTL&tsp=1

Hey from Andros Island, Bahamas

Craig - Come on why such a big rounding error on the taxes, No big deal as they try to pay the Correct amount.

The bigger problem is how unpatriotic this group is and NOT in step with the New Administration.

Afterall it is their Duty and JOY to pay Higher taxes !!

Oh we have a problem

A religion for all of us

http://www.saintstupid.com/

Today is April 1st, April Fools Day, and this April Fools Day has a special meaning. Cigarette, actually taxes on tobacco products are going up. This computation is probably above my pay scale, but how does this tax make any sense. The number of smokers have been declining over the years, we have over 8% unemployment, foreclosures are sky rocketing, cost of living is rising and the answer is to raise taxes on tobacco. Has anyone thought through what sort of impact this tax and will have not just on the tobacco companies, but on the small counties and cities where these tobacco companies are located in VA, NC, KY? If companies can not make a decent profit, they eventually shut their doors, or move to a more favorable location, either way these small counties and cities will bare the burden of higher unemployment, individuals collecting unemployment benefits, lost tax revenues, which transfers into providing less services or raising taxes, additional foreclosures, and this doesn't even touch the topic of what happens to the small mom and pop, and other businesses whose existence is based upon the tobacco companies and it's workers? Who will pay the tobacco workers pension plans if big tobacco is forced to shut down forever? Now think for a moment once big tobacco have been laid to rest, where will Big GOVCO turn their eyes to collect the taxes lost from the tobacco industry? I say alcohol. If you permanently close down big tobacco because of "health related issues", how can those who want to legalize drug use justify their position?

TIR

Is your post an April Fools joke

The greatest threat to loss of jobs in the tobacco trades was mechanization not loss of smokers

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=4000

let the cig companies go down with the newspapers......tobacco is easy enough to grow.....me old grampa grew his own in east alabam, dried it, cured it or whatever, and smoked what they called "twists".....cigars.........

screw 'em, and screw the tax too......

smoke 'em if ya got 'em:

http://www.victoryseeds.com/tobacco/index.html

his was a family which for one thing trapped possums to sell the skins to sears and roebuck as lining for leather gloves.......

sorry...uno mas: A slideshow "from seed to cigar" grow your own:

http://www.newhopeseed.com/tobacco/index.htm

NEW THREAD.. http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/04/obama-the-g20-headliner.html

Hopefully, A happy April Fools Day for everyone.
(I keep looking for the joke in everything, whether it's there or not)

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/03/dittoheads-go-global.html#comment-215806

mqw, Good reminder.
I thought all your posts were very meaningful (referring to toward
end of last thread).

CBob and Dexter, That was some beautiful, sad poetry (lyrics) you quoted last night. But mostly just beautiful.

Blonde, I hope all's well on the home front for you and your hubby.

More bad news on the job front. Maybe we should raise taxes?

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5303F820090401

NEW THREAD