“While the government is closed, people with appointments related to examinations (audits), collection, Appeals or Taxpayer Advocate cases should assume their meetings are cancelled. IRS personnel will reschedule those meetings at a later date”.
But the taxes are still being removed from our paychecks and employers are paying taxes on their employees on top of that, which means the taxes being withheld are more than what shows up on your pay stub.
The Federal government then siphons of a bunch of that money and creates more drugs (programs) to addict us to.
Can you imagine how rich we’d all be if we would have been able to keep most of that money and if our employers could have paid us instead of the government for every hour we’ve worked all our lives? Wow. They wasted all that money, borrowed from our children, borrowed from our grand children and wasted that money too. Any government employee suggesting more programs should be sent to Guantanamo.
Then we have nuts on TV saying the economy is being harmed because the money the federal government drained out of the free market through taxes isn’t being spent by the government. How nutty is that?
Remember: The government has no money. None. Zero. It can only take money out of the economy that would otherwise be growing the economy and spend it less efficiently. Multiply that waste on a grand scale and this is the economy you get. Now they want to take more out of the economy for yet more programs. They are nuts.
Nick I am sure you’re aware that the Government sells bonds. But that is another subject which has to do with the debt ceiling, although it is all intricately tied together
I’m not even going to read your link, the title is already wrong. The U.S. already defaulted. It matters not to the lender if you pay the lender back with less dollars than was owed or with dollars that have lost purchasing power because we printed more of them. It’s still a default. The U.S. already defaulted, even if we one day pay China back every dollar because we simply printed those dollars which made every dollar we repaid them with (including the ones you have in your wallet) worth that much less.
When I say that, I mean the federal government could shut down 99% of itself permanently and still fulfill the very few, limited duties it is charged with and limited to by our constitution. The other 99% they have stuck their nose into is none of their business.
Of course! The longer an addict can’t get a fix, the more he feels it. They’ve forgotten that they pay taxes on everything, more than once. The coffee I’m drinking right now is taxed, the money I bought it with is taxed, the fuel in the truck that delivered it is taxed. Can you imagine how the “people would feel” if all that money would stay in the economy instead of being sucked out of it? We’d all be rich… and I’m not exaggerating.
There would still be poor people who need help. There would still be criminals wanting to take from others.** Companies would become monopolies screwing all of us out of any extra money and then some you might have just to keep food on your table & your house warm.**
Remember the big Bush tax cuts in 2001? Mine went directly to the oil companies via my gas tank when the price of oil spiked. Thanks for nothing President Bush.
Our federal government has created more monopolies than any businessman. And they did it by giving tax breaks and money to their friends. They are the criminals. The public school system is proof of that. Private schools kick their as-s and do it at 1/2 the price, but the government still insists we pay their monopoly even if we take our kids out of it!
Monopolies? Our government is king of crappy monopolies. They call these monopolies… too big to fail. More accurately… too big to fail so we’re giving them your money.