Re: A little humor...

["Bernie Mooney" <bmooney@bway.net>]

You don't have a problem with the IRS? I'm not saying they should be
abolished but they need somebody to answer to. They can do what they want,
when they want it. I've read too many horror stories about how people's
lives were destroyed by them. AND it's not the wealthy that usually get
screwed, it's the average guy. The IRS knows the average guy doesn't have
the money and/or clout to fight them. I had a friend some years ago who was
audited. He made $13,000 that year.  In fact, I think the majority of audits
are those making middle or below middle income.


Bernie

-----Original Message-----
From: Laura J. Walker <LJW6626@worldnet.att.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list NOPRIVACY <noprivacy@essential.org>
Date: Sunday, January 17, 1999 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: A little humor...


>I hope this is JUST humor and not some advocation that these agencies be
>completely abolished.  :-)
>
>I look at it this way: people always think they're never going to 'need'
>government services or benefits -- it's always somebody else; or that
they're
>automatically getting ripped off by the IRS or any government agency.  Yet,
>each of us benefits from this system, too, whether we choose to admit it or
>not.
>
>I echo Margaret's sentiments to Greg re: taxes, government programs.
>What is a society if not a collection of people who develop a system of
>governance (including taxation -- the benefits of which we see in
>roads/highways, telephone systems, parklands, to name but a few, and
programs
>to help the least of us)?   Seems to me this form of democracy, with all
its
>faults, is better than the violent chaos and rule of the wealthy and
powerful
>over the poor and weak that would result if we just threw these systems
out.
>;-]
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>>
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>> Security
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>> the
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