Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 19, 2013

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    pawpawbear  over 11 years ago

    Well, truth indeed has been told.

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    wrwallaceii  over 11 years ago

    Yes, truth indeed, but did you have to say it out loud?

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    Varnes  over 11 years ago

    If it ain’t broke don’t fix…um….wait, we are broke….

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    jack fairbanks  over 11 years ago

    now what shall we call the fee and penalties for necessitating this meeting?

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    Kali39  over 11 years ago

    For everyone knows that the Devil maintains his office at the IRS…

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    AKHenderson Premium Member over 11 years ago

    I had a little fun with the IRS logo, with talent on loan from Rush (the band)..http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh612/alankh1960/akhblog/IRS-Starman.jpg

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    chassimmons Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Is this a reference to this “scandal” about some civil service employees questioning 501©4 status of some TeaParty organizations? Someone will have to explain that one to me. 501© status is not allowed for candidate sponsoring organizations, and what else does the TeaParty do? Seems like some pretty low-hanging fruit to me.

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    chassimmons Premium Member over 11 years ago

    @Clark Kent: some of your ideas sound reasonable to me, but those ideas have little to do with the IRS; they just collect taxes.@Varnes: No, we’re not broke. We just have some poor policymakers in Washington.

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    alviebird  over 11 years ago

    You can’t lose what you never had.

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    psychlady  over 11 years ago

    That says it all!! Sad, isn’t it?

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    vwdualnomand  over 11 years ago

    i’m wondering if we can dodge taxes like the big companies do. like apple, ge, google, amazon, etc…maybe siri can help me, or if there is an app for that.

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    The Life I Draw Upon  over 11 years ago

    @chasimmons what on earth made you think that we are not in debt or have a huge trade deficit? What rock have you been living under?

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    Q4horse  over 11 years ago

    When you tax income, you get less of it. Get rid of the IRS. Fund the Fed with Tariffs. End the income tax and everyone gets more income.

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    rmacprivate  over 11 years ago

    I wish the rest of the Government would be concerned about getting the public’s trust back. That would be the first sign that we don’t live in an oligarchy. Interesting that some of the countries that are recognized as having an oligarchy style of government include China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea.

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    rockngolfer  over 11 years ago

    So is Daryl Issa going to apologize to President Obama for getting it completely wrong? I didn’t think so.

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    Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Wiley, you got a little political on this one.

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    thomgeno  over 11 years ago

    @chasssimmons “501© status is not allowed for candidate sponsoring organizations”

    Not true, both types of 501© organizations are allowed to be involved in politics. Just to different degrees.

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    Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Wiley, we even have tax advisors on here now!!!

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    rockngolfer  over 11 years ago

    One of the guys at work had one of Issa’s defective car alarms. It talked all day. Every time a truck went by, or a plane flew over, or a bird landed nearby. Issa may be rich but he is an idiot.

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    Linguist  over 11 years ago

    According to tradition, the apostle Matthew was a tax collector and considered an outcast and a sinner ( albeit a wealthy one ) for collecting taxes. Two thousand years haven’t changed anything.We still hate the tax collectors !

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    Saturday's Child  over 11 years ago

    I second and third that!!

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    Gokie5  over 11 years ago

    “I wonder how long it will be before some ‘genius’ conservative brings in for-profit taxing?”The Romans employed “publicans” to manage many govern operations, including tax collection. The publicans could keep part of the money they collected, so the more, the merrier. They were lumped with sinners in the New Testament. Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publican

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    dflak  over 11 years ago

    What’s the difference between the IRS and the IRA? One of them is a terrorist organization. The other exists in Ireland.

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    Gokie5  over 11 years ago

    (Just saw “Linguist’s” comment, seven comments above.)

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    rmacprivate  over 11 years ago

    Besides the wife? No.

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    Dr_Fogg  over 11 years ago

    And a bigger one the the Democratic Headquarters.

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    Potrzebie  over 11 years ago

    If it weren’t for Alexander Hamilton and the Whiskey Rebellion, the Federal Government would be shadwo of what it is nowadyas, Imagine all services rendered by contractors? (whom are responsible to the shareholders only)

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    ArtisticArtemis  over 11 years ago

    My almost instinctual response to the truthful answer even before I got to the end of the sentence was:

    “100% Mutual Seppuku?”

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    rmurphy36  over 11 years ago

    I hope Clark Kent doesn’t think anyone really paid those 60’s rates. That is why the AMT came into being and now we all pay it.

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    Ernest Lemmingway  over 11 years ago

    After my experience with a random audit this year the word “Internal” has taken on new meaning. I haven’t felt that violated since my last colonoscopy!

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    Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago

    What is Danae up too now?

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    Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Wiley, WOW!!!!

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    rainmac  over 11 years ago

    While normally Wiley and I see eye to eye, this time he’s killing the messenger.

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    orz  over 11 years ago

    The IRS should not trust the phony tax returns some people submit _

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    Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Having fun, Wiley?

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    drdougsteward  over 11 years ago

    Wealth isn’t taxed – income is. The “rich” may or may not have taxable income as they hire lawyers, create trusts, make themselves executors of non-profits, etc. “Our” jobs? If you are self employed, it’s your job.

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    If the shoe fits, one must wear it.

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    rmbdot  over 11 years ago

    Getting back to the strip… Look at the head of the table. Isn’t that whatshisname, our favorite Non Sequitur sinister behind-the-curtain villain? We haven’t seen him in months! Good job of hiding him in plain sight, Wiley!

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    wcssharpe  over 11 years ago

    THINK! We are the most generous people in the world but almost all of us hate the IRS.. WHY??

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    hippogriff  over 11 years ago

    chassimmons: And no one is permitted to mention back in the days of Reagan and Watt when the Sierra Club had their status revoked for spending 2% of their budget lobbying to prevent a dam across Toroweap Point to flood Grand Canyon. That is why the Sierra Club Foundation is a separate operation today.

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    jgcp1  over 11 years ago

    It’s all legalised theft anyway. The government is broke because they’ve been buying votes through excessive borrowing for decades and now the credit cards are all maxed out. The late Margaret Thatcher summed liberal politics up to a “T” when she said, “the problem with socialism is that , sooner or later, you run out of other peoples’ money.”

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