Comments on: When government has your identity, you aren't safe http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Q http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/#comment-15064 Q Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:39:33 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/#comment-15064 take a hint from clark kent, or bruce wayne. 2 identities are better than one. take a hint from clark kent, or bruce wayne. 2 identities are better than one.

]]> By: Dissent http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/#comment-15063 Dissent Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:50:31 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/#comment-15063 As long as you're talking about the IRS, perhaps you should include this: ".... Her arrest contributed to a grim statistic for Fresno's IRS regional service center. Since April 1, 2001, 30 local IRS employees have been prosecuted for illegally accessing tax data -- far and away the most from the nation's 10 regional service centers. Austin, Texas, and Kansas City, Mo., are the next highest with five each. At first look, the cases seem like identity-theft schemes, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Stanley Boone said the employees were simply peeking at the tax files of family, friends and neighbors." Source: Fresno Bee Oh, so they're just invading our privacy but not stealing our identities? I feel so much better. As long as you’re talking about the IRS, perhaps you should include this:

“…. Her arrest contributed to a grim statistic for Fresno’s IRS regional service center. Since April 1, 2001, 30 local IRS employees have been prosecuted for illegally accessing tax data — far and away the most from the nation’s 10 regional service centers.

Austin, Texas, and Kansas City, Mo., are the next highest with five each.

At first look, the cases seem like identity-theft schemes, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Stanley Boone said the employees were simply peeking at the tax files of family, friends and neighbors.”

Source: Fresno Bee

Oh, so they’re just invading our privacy but not stealing our identities? I feel so much better.

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/#comment-15062 Michael Hampton Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:43:15 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/#comment-15062 Regardless of what or how you tax, you have destroyed something. Someone pays the tax, and therefore cannot do something productive with that money. It's the broken window fallacy. There's no way to know what has been lost to taxation. What we do know is that businesses respond differently to changes in taxation than do individuals. This is true primarily because businesses almost always have a wider range of options open to them. But like the rest of us, businesses will seek to pay as little tax as possible. After all, as you noted, taxation has negative impacts on customer service, employee salaries, product quality, product price, and of course profit. I also find it ironic that someone in the Internal Revenue Service supports the so-called "Fair Tax." Regardless of what or how you tax, you have destroyed something. Someone pays the tax, and therefore cannot do something productive with that money. It’s the broken window fallacy. There’s no way to know what has been lost to taxation.

What we do know is that businesses respond differently to changes in taxation than do individuals. This is true primarily because businesses almost always have a wider range of options open to them. But like the rest of us, businesses will seek to pay as little tax as possible. After all, as you noted, taxation has negative impacts on customer service, employee salaries, product quality, product price, and of course profit.

I also find it ironic that someone in the Internal Revenue Service supports the so-called “Fair Tax.”

]]> By: John http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/#comment-15061 John Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:24:24 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/#comment-15061 Corporate taxes are not actully paid by corporations, they are collected by them. If corporate taxes are raised, the corporations collects them by passing them on to people. Methods are raising prices (consumer pays the tax), cutting employee benefits (employee pays the tax), outsourcing labor or supplies (employee or supplier pays the tax), or paying them out of profits (shareholder pays the tax). Corporate taxes are not actully paid by corporations, they are collected by them. If corporate taxes are raised, the corporations collects them by passing them on to people. Methods are raising prices (consumer pays the tax), cutting employee benefits (employee pays the tax), outsourcing labor or supplies (employee or supplier pays the tax), or paying them out of profits (shareholder pays the tax).

]]> By: Verbos http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/#comment-15060 Verbos Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:40:05 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/04/19/when-government-has-your-identity-you-arent-safe/#comment-15060 "After all, it’s their job to damage you financially." This is the very truth! Corporate tax amounts to the majority of taxes collected by the Federal Government. It is constitutionally unchallengeable. Personal Tax is illegal for American citizens with a few exceptions. If personal tax were abolished, Corporate tax would be only slightly increased to cover the difference. Corporations pay tax at a much lower rate than individuals because of their blanket of loop holes anyhow. So, what other reason could there be? “After all, it’s their job to damage you financially.”

This is the very truth! Corporate tax amounts to the majority of taxes collected by the Federal Government. It is constitutionally unchallengeable. Personal Tax is illegal for American citizens with a few exceptions. If personal tax were abolished, Corporate tax would be only slightly increased to cover the difference. Corporations pay tax at a much lower rate than individuals because of their blanket of loop holes anyhow. So, what other reason could there be?

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