INDEX
- Vote 'NO!' to Government Regulation of Privacy at The Economist
- FCC Stalls on Internet Regulation; Asks for More Comments
- Why was the Volcker Commission Constrained by Obama’s Tax Pledge, but not the Simpson-Bowles?
- Daily Media Spotlight September 2, 2010
- Harry Reid Looks to Resurrect RES During Lame-Duck
- Calculating the Cost of Government (CFA Site »)
Thursday, September 2, 2010
- Daily Media Spotlight September 1, 2010
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Obama Tax Commission Report:
Baby Step Toward IRS Tax Preparation - Dina Titus Launches False Attack Ad on Joe Heck and the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- Indiana LaunchesTransparency Website (CFA Site »)
- Rally for Jobs Kicks Off Today in Texas
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
- Daily Media Spotlight August 31, 2010
- Let us All Join in on the NOT so “Green Cause”
- California Bag Ban Bill Up for Vote Today
- Norquist to Gov. Pat Quinn: Pick a Flawed Income Tax Hike and Stick With It
- Phil Moffett Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge in Kentucky Gubernatorial Race
- New Mexico Sets Trends in Transparency Websites (CFA Site »)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
- Robert Gibbs’s Fuzzy Tax Hike Math
- Daily Media Spotlight August 30, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
- 2011 Could Be Ugly for Nevada Taxpayers
- Lame Duck Governor Ed Rendell Not Going Gently Into That Good Night – New Call for Higher Taxes
- Happy Cost of Government Day, California
- Bay Staters Spent 239 Days Paying for Government Burdens in 2010 (CFA Site »)
- Washington Welcomes Cost of Government Day (CFA Site »)
Friday, August 27, 2010
- Spill Commission Should Lift Moratorium Which Has Cost Gulf Residents 12,000 Jobs and $2.1 Billion
- Daily Media Spotlight August 26, 2010
- Why is Dan Onorato Knowingly Misleading Pennsylvania Voters?
- Unions plan on spending big this election cycle
- Utah Tobacco Sellers Feeling the Impact of Tax Hikes
Thursday, August 26, 2010
- Daily Media Spotlight August 25, 2010
- WI Democrats Launch “Blatantly False” Attack on Sean Duffy
- Unions plan on spending big this election cycle (AWF Site »)
- Philly's New Blog Tax May Foreshadow Other eTaxes
- BNA: For 14 States, Existing Tax Code Leaves Room for Etax (Stop eTaxes Site »)
- Philly's $300 Blogger Tax (Stop eTaxes Site »)
- Cost of Government Day Arrives in the Commonwealth
- Pennsylvania Finally Celebrates Cost of Government Day
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
- California Budget Proposal Advocates eTax (Stop eTaxes Site »)
- Daily Media Spotlight August 24, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
- Daily Media Spotlight August 23, 2010
- Government Workers' Pensions are Underfunded by $3 Trillion
Monday, August 23, 2010
- Fourteen Ways to Reduce Government Spending
- FCC Report on Broadband Performance: A Scare Tactic
- Sen. Al Franken Doesn’t Understand Wireless Networks...or the First Amendment
Friday, August 20, 2010
- Daily Media Spotlight August 19, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Do as They Say, Not as They Do
From Pat Pelletier on Monday, December 21, 2009 3:36 PMHere is something that should put everyone in a festive holiday mood. Or at the very least will have you chuckling as you shake your head. Okay, maybe chuckling isn’t the right word.
As first reported by a DC radio news station, and now picked up nationally, federal government employees owe more than three billion dollars in unpaid taxes. All together, more than 276,000 federal employees live off taxpayer dollars, but are delinquent in paying taxes themselves. Just to remind everyone, we are currently facing the biggest deficit of our country’s history.
The worst offender of all executive departments is the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where more than four percent of the Department’s bureaucrats owe taxes. The Senate owes approximately $2.5 million; the House of Representatives just under $6 million. The United States Postal Service, the largest government agency other than the Armed Forces, has a non-compliance rate that nears four percent – think they could get away with saying the check is in the mail? Thankfully, the Treasury Department – under which the IRS is classified – has less than one percent of its workers in non-compliance. For the record, this does not count Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who cleared up back taxes he had failed to pay before taking the job.
Politicians should reign in their out of control spending, with the ultimate goal being the reduction and simplification of our tax system. Especially during this recession, politicians and government bureaucrats should learn to live within their means – just like the rest of us. And while the government attempts to steal more money out of our pockets through higher taxes, the least government employees can do is pay what they owe. Until the day tax reform arrives, if they need some extra dollars, I know where they can find about three billion of them.














Comments
Lets everyone in America quit our jobs and go back to living off the land. This will fix these out of control fools in washington
>> ernest Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:01 AM Report Comment